Proverbs 6:14
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;
Frowardness is in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually; he soweth discord.
15 Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; suddenly shall he be broken without remedy.
16 These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- With deceit in his heart he devises evil; he continually sows discord.
- KJV
- Frowardness is in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually; he soweth discord.
- WEB
- in whose heart is perverseness, who devises evil continually, who always sows discord.
- ASV
- In whose heart is perverseness, Who deviseth evil continually, Who soweth discord.
- DARBY
- deceits are in his heart; he deviseth mischief at all times, he soweth discords.
- BLB
- [with] perversity in his heart, plotting evil; at every time he sends forth strife.
- ÅB
- som har svik i sitt hjerte, som tenker ut onde ting til enhver tid og volder tretter.
- OTB
- som planlegger ondskap med svik i sitt hjerte—
han sprer stadig strid. - B1930
- som har svik i sitt hjerte, som tenker ut onde ting til enhver tid og volder tretter.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Micah 2:1
Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand.
Read in contextRomans 16:17
Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them.
Read in contextHosea 8:7
For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk: the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up.
Read in contextProverbs 6:18–19
An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,
Read in contextProverbs 26:17–22
He that passeth by, and meddleth with strife belonging not to him, is like one that taketh a dog by the ears.
Read in contextPsalms 36:4
He deviseth mischief upon his bed; he setteth himself in a way that is not good; he abhorreth not evil.
Read in contextProverbs 2:14
Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness of the wicked;
Read in contextIsaiah 32:7
The instruments also of the churl are evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right.
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