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The Darby Translation

Proverbs 6:12

A man of Belial, a wicked person, is he that goeth about with a perverse mouth;

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Falsehood;   Strife;   Wicked (People);   Young Men;  

Dictionaries:

- Easton Bible Dictionary - Belial;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Death;   Proverbs, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Belial (Beliar);   Proverbs, Book of;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Proverbs book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Naught;   Person;   Wink;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Ethics;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
A worthless person, a wicked mangoes around speaking dishonestly,
Hebrew Names Version
A worthless person, a man of iniquity, Is he who walks with a perverse mouth;
King James Version
A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth.
English Standard Version
A worthless person, a wicked man, goes about with crooked speech,
New Century Version
Some people are wicked and no good. They go around telling lies,
New English Translation
A worthless and wicked person walks around saying perverse things;
Amplified Bible
A worthless person, a wicked man, Is one who walks with a perverse (corrupt, vulgar) mouth.
New American Standard Bible
A worthless person, a wicked man, Is one who walks with a perverse mouth,
World English Bible
A worthless person, a man of iniquity, Is he who walks with a perverse mouth;
Geneva Bible (1587)
The vnthriftie man and the wicked man walketh with a froward mouth.
Legacy Standard Bible
A vile person, a wicked man,Is the one who walks with a perverse mouth,
Berean Standard Bible
A worthless person, a wicked man, walks with a perverse mouth,
Contemporary English Version
Worthless liars go around
Complete Jewish Bible
A scoundrel, a vicious man, lives by crooked speech,
Easy-to-Read Version
Some people are just troublemakers. They are always thinking up some crooked plan and telling lies.
George Lamsa Translation
A fool, a wicked man, is unscrupulous.
Good News Translation
Lexham English Bible
A worthless man, an evil man, goes around with deceitful speech.
Literal Translation
A worthless person, a wicked man, walks with a perverse mouth,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
A dissemblynge person, a wicked man goeth with a frowarde mouth:
American Standard Version
A worthless person, a man of iniquity, Is he that walketh with a perverse mouth;
Bible in Basic English
A good-for-nothing man is an evil-doer; he goes on his way causing trouble with false words;
JPS Old Testament (1917)
A base person, a man of iniquity, is he that walketh with a froward mouth;
King James Version (1611)
A naughtie person, a wicked man walketh with a froward mouth.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
An vngodly person, a wicked man, goeth with a frowarde mouth.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
A foolish man and a transgressor goes in ways that are not good.
English Revised Version
A worthless person, a man of iniquity; he walketh with a froward mouth;
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
A man apostata, a man vnprofitable, he goith with a weiward mouth;
Update Bible Version
[A] worthless man, a man of iniquity, Is he that walks with a perverse mouth;
Webster's Bible Translation
A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth.
New King James Version
A worthless person, a wicked man, Walks with a perverse mouth;
New Living Translation
What are worthless and wicked people like? They are constant liars,
New Life Bible
A person of no worth, a sinful man, is he who goes about telling lies.
New Revised Standard
A scoundrel and a villain goes around with crooked speech,
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
An abandoned man, a man of iniquity, is he who - goeth on in perversity of mouth;
Douay-Rheims Bible
A man that is an apostate, an unprofitable man, walketh with a perverse mouth,
Revised Standard Version
A worthless person, a wicked man, goes about with crooked speech,
Young's Literal Translation
A man of worthlessness, a man of iniquity, Walking [with] perverseness of mouth,
THE MESSAGE
Riffraff and rascals talk out of both sides of their mouths. They wink at each other, they shuffle their feet, they cross their fingers behind their backs. Their perverse minds are always cooking up something nasty, always stirring up trouble. Catastrophe is just around the corner for them, a total smashup, their lives ruined beyond repair.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
A worthless person, a wicked man, Is the one who walks with a perverse mouth,

Contextual Overview

12 A man of Belial, a wicked person, is he that goeth about with a perverse mouth; 13 he winketh with his eyes, he speaketh with his feet, he teacheth with his fingers; 14 deceits are in his heart; he deviseth mischief at all times, he soweth discords. 15 Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly: in a moment shall he be broken, and without remedy. 16 These six [things] doth Jehovah hate, yea, seven are an abomination unto him: 17 haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood; 18 a heart that deviseth wicked imaginations; feet that are swift in running to mischief; 19 a false witness that uttereth lies, and he that soweth discords among brethren.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

naughty: Proverbs 11:6, Proverbs 17:4, 1 Samuel 17:28, Jeremiah 24:2, Jeremiah 24:8-10, James 1:21

walketh: Proverbs 6:14, Proverbs 2:12, Proverbs 4:24, Proverbs 8:13, Psalms 10:3, Psalms 10:7, Psalms 36:3, Psalms 52:2-4, Psalms 59:7, Psalms 73:8, Psalms 73:9, Matthew 12:34, Acts 20:30, 1 Timothy 5:13, Titus 1:10, Titus 1:11, James 3:6

Reciprocal: Psalms 10:8 - his eyes Proverbs 5:6 - her Proverbs 16:30 - shutteth Proverbs 17:20 - He that hath a froward heart Micah 2:1 - to Matthew 15:18 - General

Cross-References

Genesis 6:1
And it came to pass when mankind began to multiply on the earth, and daughters were born to them,
Genesis 6:2
that the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair, and took themselves wives of all that they chose.
Genesis 6:3
And Jehovah said, My Spirit shall not always plead with Man; for he indeed is flesh; but his days shall be a hundred and twenty years.
Genesis 6:4
In those days were the giants on the earth, and also afterwards, when the sons of God had come in to the daughters of men, and they had borne [children] to them; these were the heroes, who of old were men of renown.
Genesis 6:5
And Jehovah saw that the wickedness of Man was great on the earth, and every imagination of the thoughts of his heart only evil continually.
Genesis 6:8
But Noah found favour in the eyes of Jehovah.
Genesis 6:13
And God said to Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me, for the earth is full of violence through them; and behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
Genesis 6:14
Make thyself an ark of gopher wood: [with] cells shalt thou make the ark; and pitch it inside and outside with pitch.
Genesis 6:15
And thus shalt thou make it: let the length of the ark be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.
Genesis 6:16
A light shalt thou make to the ark; and to a cubit high shalt thou finish it above. And the door of the ark shalt thou set in its side: [with] a lower, second, and third [story] shalt thou make it.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

A naughty person, a wicked man,.... Or, "a man of Belial, a man of iniquity" w. The former signifies an unprofitable man, a man good for nothing, that is of no use to God or man; or one that is lawless, that has thrown off the yoke of the law, and will not be subject to it; Belial is the name of the devil; and here it may design such as are his children, and will do his lusts: the latter phrase signifies one that is wholly given up to work wickedness. The characters well agree with the ανομος, the lawless one, the man of sin and son of perdition, antichrist, 2 Thessalonians 2:3. Who

walketh with a froward mouth; speaking perverse things, things contrary to the light of nature and reason, to law and Gospel; uttering lies, and deceit, and blasphemies against God and man; to which he has used himself, and in which he continues, as the word "walketh" signifies: so antichrist has a mouth opened in blasphemies against God and his saints, Revelation 13:5.

w בליעל איש און "homo Belijahal, vir iniquitatis", Montanus, Vatablus, Baynus, Michaelis.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

A naughty person - literally, “a man of Belial,” i. e., a worthless man (see the Deuteronomy 13:13 note). This is the portrait of the man who is not to be trusted, whose look and gestures warn against him all who can observe. His speech is tortuous and crafty; his wink tells the accomplice that the victim is already snared; his gestures with foot and hand are half in deceit, and half in mockery.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 6:12. A naughty person — אדם בליעל adam beliyal, "Adam good for nothing." When he lost his innocence. A man apostata; Old MS. Bible.

A wicked man — איש און ish aven. He soon became a general transgressor after having departed from his God. All his posterity, unless restored by Divine grace, are men of Belial, and sinners by trade; and most of them, in one form or other, answer the character here given. They yield their members instruments of unrighteousness unto sin.


 
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