Parallel Verses

Holman Bible

for their hearts plan violence,
and their words stir up trouble.

New American Standard Bible

For their minds devise violence,
And their lips talk of trouble.

King James Version

For their heart studieth destruction, and their lips talk of mischief.

International Standard Version

because they plan violence, and they are always talking about trouble.

A Conservative Version

For their heart meditates oppression, and their lips talk of mischief.

American Standard Version

For their heart studieth oppression, And their lips talk of mischief.

Amplified


For their minds plot violence,
And their lips talk of trouble [for the innocent].

Bible in Basic English

For the purposes of their hearts are destruction, and their lips are talking of trouble.

Darby Translation

for their heart studieth destruction, and their lips talk of mischief.

Julia Smith Translation

For their heart will meditate destruction, and their lips will speak labor.

King James 2000

For their heart studies destruction, and their lips talk of mischief.

Lexham Expanded Bible

For their minds will devise violence, and their lips will speak mischief.

Modern King James verseion

For their heart studies ruin, and their lips talk of mischief.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

For their heart imagineth to do hurt, and their lips talk of mischief.

NET Bible

for their hearts contemplate violence, and their lips speak harm.

New Heart English Bible

for their hearts plot violence, and their lips talk about mischief.

The Emphasized Bible

For, violence, their heart muttereth, and, mischief, their lips do speak.

Webster

For their heart studieth destruction, and their lips talk of mischief.

World English Bible

for their hearts plot violence, and their lips talk about mischief.

Youngs Literal Translation

For destruction doth their heart meditate, And perverseness do their lips speak.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
הגה 
Hagah 
Usage: 25

שׁוד שׁד 
Shod 
Usage: 25

and their lips
שׂפת שׂפה 
Saphah 
Usage: 176

דּבר 
Dabar 
Usage: 1142

References

Hastings

Context Readings

Learning From Your Father

1 Don’t envy evil men
or desire to be with them,
2 for their hearts plan violence,
and their words stir up trouble.
3 A house is built by wisdom,
and it is established by understanding;



Cross References

Psalm 10:7

Cursing, deceit, and violence fill his mouth;
trouble and malice are under his tongue.

Job 15:35

They conceive trouble and give birth to evil;
their womb prepares deception.

1 Samuel 23:9

When David learned that Saul was plotting evil against him, he said to Abiathar the priest, “Bring the ephod.”

Esther 3:6-7

And when he learned of Mordecai’s ethnic identity, Haman decided not to do away with Mordecai alone. He planned to destroy all of Mordecai’s people, the Jews, throughout Ahasuerus’s kingdom.

Psalm 7:14

See, the wicked one is pregnant with evil,
conceives trouble, and gives birth to deceit.

Psalm 28:3

Do not drag me away with the wicked,
with the evildoers,
who speak in friendly ways with their neighbors
while malice is in their hearts.

Psalm 36:4

Even on his bed he makes malicious plans.
He sets himself on a path that is not good
and does not reject evil.

Psalm 64:4-6

shooting from concealed places at the innocent.
They shoot at him suddenly and are not afraid.

Psalm 140:2

who plan evil in their hearts.
They stir up wars all day long.

Proverbs 6:14

He always plots evil with perversity in his heart—
he stirs up trouble.

Proverbs 24:8

The one who plots evil
will be called a schemer.

Isaiah 59:4

No one makes claims justly;
no one pleads honestly.
They trust in empty and worthless words;
they conceive trouble and give birth to iniquity.

Micah 7:3

Both hands are good at accomplishing evil:
the official and the judge demand a bribe;
when the powerful man communicates his evil desire,
they plot it together.

Matthew 26:3-4

Then the chief priests and the elders of the people assembled in the palace of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas,

Luke 23:20-21

Pilate, wanting to release Jesus, addressed them again,

Acts 13:10

and said, “You son of the Devil, full of all deceit and all fraud, enemy of all righteousness! Won’t you ever stop perverting the straight paths of the Lord?

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