Proverbs 6:12 A troublemaker and a villain, who goes about with a corrupt mouth,

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
A troublemaker and a villain, who goes about with a corrupt mouth,

English Standard Version
A worthless person, a wicked man, goes about with crooked speech,

New American Standard Bible
A worthless person, a wicked man, Is the one who walks with a perverse mouth,

King James Bible
A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
A worthless person, a wicked man goes around speaking dishonestly,

International Standard Version
A worthless man, a wicked man, goes around with devious speech,

American Standard Version
A worthless person, a man of iniquity, Is he that walketh with a perverse mouth;

Douay-Rheims Bible
A man that is an apostate, an unprofitable man, walketh with a perverse mouth,

Darby Bible Translation
A man of Belial, a wicked person, is he that goeth about with a perverse mouth;

Young's Literal Translation
A man of worthlessness, a man of iniquity, Walking with perverseness of mouth,

Cross References

Proverbs 2:12
To deliver you from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaks fraudulent things;

Proverbs 4:24
Put away from you a fraudulent mouth, and perverse lips put far from you.

Proverbs 8:13
The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogance, and the evil way, and the fraudulent mouth, do I hate.

Proverbs 10:32
The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable: but the mouth of the wicked speaks frowardness.

Proverbs 16:27
An ungodly man digs up evil: and in his lips there is as a burning fire.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

6:12-19 If the slothful are to be condemned, who do nothing, much more those that do all the ill they can. Observe how such a man is described. He says and does every thing artfully, and with design. His ruin shall come without warning, and without relief. Here is a list of things hateful to God. Those sins are in a special manner provoking to God, which are hurtful to the comfort of human life. These things which God hates, we must hate in ourselves; it is nothing to hate them in others. Let us shun all such practices, and watch and pray against them; and avoid, with marked disapproval, all who are guilty of them, whatever may be their rank.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

12. A naughty person—literally, "A man of Belial," or of worthlessness, that is, for good, and so depraved, or wicked (compare 1Sa 25:25; 30:22, &c.). Idleness and vice are allied. Though indolent in acts, he actively and habitually (walketh) is ill-natured in speech (Pr 4:24).