Proverbs 16:27
Worthless people plan ways to cause trouble for others, and even what they say injures people like a hot fire does [SIM].
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
An ungodly man diggeth up evil: and in his lips there is as a burning fire.
In Context
Cross References
2 Samuel 20:1There was a man there at Gilgal named Sheba. He was a man who always caused trouble. He was from the tribe of Benjamin and was the son of Bichri. He blew a trumpet and called out, “We have nothing to do with [DOU] David, that son of Jesse! So, men of Israel, let’s go to our homes!”
Psalms 52:2All during the day you plan to get rid of others; what you say [MTY] injures others like a sharp razor [SIM], and you are always deceiving others.
Proverbs 2:4Search eagerly for wisdom, like you would search for silver, like you would search for a treasure that someone has hidden.
Proverbs 6:14They plan to do evil things. They constantly cause strife/trouble.
Proverbs 19:28Worthless witnesses in court make fun of judges who try to make fair decisions, and wicked people enjoy doing evil like they enjoy eating good food [MET].
Habakkuk 2:13But the Commander of the armies of angels has [RHQ] declared that everything that is built by people who do things like that will be destroyed by fire; they will have worked hard uselessly.
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 →