Proverbs 16:27
But the perverse bears destruction upon his own mouth: a foolish man digs up evil for himself, and treasures fire on his own lips.
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
An ungodly man diggeth up evil: and in his lips there is as a burning fire.
In Context
26A man who labors, labors for himself, and drives from him his own ruin.
Cross References
2 Samuel 20:1And there was a transgressor so called there, and his name was Sabee, a Benjamite, the son of Bochori: and he blew the trumpet, and said, We have no portion in David, neither have we any inheritance in the son of Jessae: to your tents, O Israel, every one.
Psalms 52:2God looked down from heaven upon the sons of men, to see if there were any that understood, or sought after God. 1
Proverbs 2:4and if you shall seek it as silver, and search diligently for it as for treasures;
Proverbs 6:14His perverse heart devises evils: at all times such a one causes troubles to a city.
Proverbs 19:28He that becomes surety for a foolish child will despise the ordinance: and the mouth of ungodly men shall drink down judgment.
Habakkuk 2:13Are not these things of the Lord Almighty? surely many people have been exhausted in the fire, and many nations have fainted.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 16:27
26 He that laboureth laboureth for himself; for his mouth craveth it of him. This is designed to engage us to diligence, and quicken us, what our hand finds to do, to do it with all our might, both in our worldly business and in the work of religion; for in the original it is, The soul that labours labours for itself. It is heart-work which is here intended, the labour of the soul, which is here recommended to us, 1. As that which will be absolutely needful. Our mouth is continually craving it of us; the… Read the whole commentary →