Proverbs 16:28
A perverse man sows strife: and a whisperer separates chief friends.
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends.
In Context
27An ungodly man digs up evil: and in his lips there is as a burning fire.
29A violent man entices his neighbour, and leads him into the way that is not good.
Cross References
Genesis 3:1Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, has God said, All of you shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
Proverbs 6:14Perverseness is in his heart, he devises mischief continually; he sows discord.
Proverbs 15:18A wrathful man stirs up strife: but he that 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 talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.
Proverbs 29:22An angry man stirs up strife, and a furious man abounds in transgression.
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 →