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New American Standard Bible (1995)

Proverbs 6:12

A worthless person, a wicked man, Is the one who walks 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,
Darby Translation
A man of Belial, a wicked person, is he that goeth about with a perverse mouth;
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.

Contextual Overview

12 A worthless person, a wicked man, Is the one who walks with a perverse mouth,13 Who winks with his eyes, who signals with his feet, Who points with his fingers; 14 Who with perversity in his heart continually devises evil, Who spreads strife. 15 Therefore his calamity will come suddenly; Instantly he will be broken and there will be no healing. 16 There are six things which the LORD hates, Yes, seven which are an abomination to Him: 17 Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, And hands that shed innocent blood, 18 A heart that devises wicked plans, Feet that run rapidly to evil, 19 A false witness who utters lies, And one who spreads strife among brothers.

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
Now it came about, when men began to multiply on the face of the land, and daughters were born to them,
Genesis 6:2
that the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful; and they took wives for themselves, whomever they chose.
Genesis 6:3
Then the LORD said, "My Spirit shall not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; nevertheless his days shall be one hundred and twenty years."
Genesis 6:4
The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men, and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.
Genesis 6:5
Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
Genesis 6:8
But Noah found favor in the eyes of the LORD.
Genesis 6:13
Then God said to Noah, "The end of all flesh has come before Me; for the earth is filled with violence because of them; and behold, I am about to destroy them with the earth.
Genesis 6:14
"Make for yourself an ark of gopher wood; you shall make the ark with rooms, and shall cover it inside and out with pitch.
Genesis 6:15
"This is how you shall make it: the length of the ark three hundred cubits, its breadth fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits.
Genesis 6:16
"You shall make a window for the ark, and finish it to a cubit from the top; and set the door of the ark in the side of it; you shall make it with lower, second, and third decks.

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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