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Proverbs 6:12

A person of no worth, a sinful man, is he who goes about telling lies.

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 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 person of no worth, a sinful man, is he who goes about telling lies. 13 He winks with his eyes, makes signs with his feet, and makes certain moves with his fingers. 14 He always plans to do sinful things because of his sinful heart. He causes arguing among people. 15 So trouble will come upon him all at once. Right then he will be broken, and there will be no healing. 16 There are six things which the Lord hates, yes, seven that are hated by Him: 17 A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that kill those who are without guilt, 18 a heart that makes sinful plans, feet that run fast to sin, 19 a person who tells lies about someone else, and one who starts fights 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
When men became many in number on the earth, and daughters were born to them,
Genesis 6:2
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 will not stay in man forever, for he is flesh. But yet he will live for 120 years."
Genesis 6:4
Very large men were on the earth in those days, and later also, when the sons of God lived with the daughters of men, who gave birth to their children. These were the powerful men of long ago, men of much strength.
Genesis 6:5
Then the Lord saw that man was very sinful on the earth. Every plan and thought of the heart of man was sinful always.
Genesis 6:8
But Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord.
Genesis 6:13
Then God said to Noah, "I have decided to make an end to all the people on the earth. They are the cause of very much trouble. See, I will destroy them as I destroy the earth.
Genesis 6:14
Make a large boat of gopher wood for yourself. Build rooms in the boat. And cover it inside and out with tar.
Genesis 6:15
This is how you are to make it: The boat is to be as long as 150 long steps, as wide as twenty-five long steps, and eight times taller than a man.
Genesis 6:16
Make a window for the boat, that goes down a cubit from the roof. Put a door in the side of the boat. And make it with first, second, and third floors.

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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