Proverbs 16:28
A perverse man stirs up strife. A whisperer separates close friends.
World English Bible British
In The King James Version
A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends.
In Context
27A worthless man devises mischief. His speech is like a scorching fire.
29A man of violence entices his neighbour, and leads him in a way that is not good.
Cross References
Genesis 3:1Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, “Has God really said, ‘You shall not eat of any tree of the garden’?”
Proverbs 6:14in whose heart is perverseness, who devises evil continually, who always sows discord.
Proverbs 15:18A wrathful man stirs up contention, but one who is slow to anger appeases strife.
Proverbs 17:17A friend loves at all times; and a brother is born for adversity.
Proverbs 18:8The words of a gossip are like dainty morsels: they go down into a person’s innermost parts.
Proverbs 29:22An angry man stirs up strife, and a wrathful man abounds in sin.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 16:28-29
27 An ungodly man diggeth up evil: and in his lips there is as a burning fire. 28 A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends. There are those that are not only vicious themselves, but spiteful and mischievous to others, and they are the worst of men; two sorts of such are here described:—1. Such as envy a man the honour of his good name, and do all they can to blast that by calumnies and misrepresentations: They dig up evil; they take a great deal of pains to find out something or other… Read the whole commentary →