Parallel Verses
King James Version
A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth.
New American Standard Bible
Is the one who walks with a
Holman Bible
goes around speaking dishonestly,
International Standard Version
A worthless man, a wicked man, goes around with devious speech,
A Conservative Version
A worthless person, a man of iniquity, is he who walks with a perverse mouth,
American Standard Version
A worthless person, a man of iniquity, Is he that walketh with a perverse mouth;
Amplified
A worthless person, a wicked man,
Is one who walks with a perverse (corrupt, vulgar) mouth.
Bible in Basic English
A good-for-nothing man is an evil-doer; he goes on his way causing trouble with false words;
Darby Translation
A man of Belial, a wicked person, is he that goeth about with a perverse mouth;
Julia Smith Translation
A man of Belial, a man of iniquity, goes with perverseness of mouth.
King James 2000
A worthless person, a wicked man, walks with a perverse mouth.
Lexham Expanded Bible
A worthless man, an evil man, goes around with {deceitful speech}.
Modern King James verseion
A worthless person, a wicked man walks with a crooked mouth,
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
An ungodly person, a wicked man goeth with a froward mouth,
NET Bible
A worthless and wicked person walks around saying perverse things;
New Heart English Bible
A worthless person, a man of iniquity, is he who walks with a perverse mouth;
The Emphasized Bible
An abandoned man, a man of iniquity, is he who - goeth on in perversity of mouth;
Webster
A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth.
World English Bible
A worthless person, a man of iniquity, is he who walks with a perverse mouth;
Youngs Literal Translation
A man of worthlessness, a man of iniquity, Walking with perverseness of mouth,
Interlinear
References
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Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 6:12
Verse Info
Context Readings
Against Worthlessness
11 So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man. 12 A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth. 13 He winketh with his eyes, he speaketh with his feet, he teacheth with his fingers;
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Cross References
Proverbs 4:24
Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee.
1 Samuel 17:28
And Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spake unto the men; and Eliab's anger was kindled against David, and he said, Why camest thou down hither? and with whom hast thou left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know thy pride, and the naughtiness of thine heart; for thou art come down that thou mightest see the battle.
Psalm 10:3
For the wicked boasteth of his heart's desire, and blesseth the covetous, whom the LORD abhorreth.
Psalm 10:7
His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.
Psalm 36:3
The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: he hath left off to be wise, and to do good.
Psalm 52:2-4
Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp rasor, working deceitfully.
Psalm 59:7
Behold, they belch out with their mouth: swords are in their lips: for who, say they, doth hear?
Psalm 73:8-9
They are corrupt, and speak wickedly concerning oppression: they speak loftily.
Proverbs 2:12
To deliver thee from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaketh froward things;
Proverbs 6:14
Frowardness is in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually; he soweth discord.
Proverbs 8:13
The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.
Proverbs 11:6
The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them: but transgressors shall be taken in their own naughtiness.
Proverbs 16:27
An ungodly man diggeth up evil: and in his lips there is as a burning fire.
Proverbs 17:4
A wicked doer giveth heed to false lips; and a liar giveth ear to a naughty tongue.
Jeremiah 24:2
One basket had very good figs, even like the figs that are first ripe: and the other basket had very naughty figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad.
Jeremiah 24:8-10
And as the evil figs, which cannot be eaten, they are so evil; surely thus saith the LORD, So will I give Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his princes, and the residue of Jerusalem, that remain in this land, and them that dwell in the land of Egypt:
Matthew 12:34
O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.
Acts 20:30
Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.
1 Timothy 5:13
And withal they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.
Titus 1:10-11
For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision:
James 1:21
Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.
James 3:6
And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.