Proverbs 24:2
Modern Translations
New International Version
for their hearts plot violence, and their lips talk about making trouble.

New Living Translation
For their hearts plot violence, and their words always stir up trouble.

English Standard Version
for their hearts devise violence, and their lips talk of trouble.

Berean Study Bible
for their hearts devise violence, and their lips declare trouble.

New American Standard Bible
For their minds plot violence, And their lips talk of trouble.

NASB 1995
For their minds devise violence, And their lips talk of trouble.

NASB 1977
For their minds devise violence, And their lips talk of trouble.

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

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

Holman Christian Standard Bible
for their hearts plan violence, and their words stir up trouble.

Contemporary English Version
All they think about and talk about is violence and cruelty.

Good News Translation
Causing trouble is all they ever think about; every time they open their mouth someone is going to be hurt.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
because their minds plot violence, and their lips talk trouble.

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

NET Bible
for their hearts contemplate violence, and their lips speak harm.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
For their heart studieth destruction, and their lips talk of mischief.

New King James Version
For their heart devises violence, And their lips talk of troublemaking.

King James 2000 Bible
For their heart studies destruction, and their lips talk of mischief.

New Heart English Bible
for their hearts plot violence, and their lips talk about mischief.

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

American King James Version
For their heart studies destruction, and their lips talk of mischief.

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

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

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

English Revised Version
For their heart studieth oppression, and their lips talk of mischief.

Webster's Bible Translation
For their heart studieth destruction, and their lips talk of mischief.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
For their heart imagineth destruction, and their lippes speake mischiefe.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
For their heart imagineth to do hurt, and their lippes talke mischiefe.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
For their herte ymagineth to do hurte, & their lippes talke of myschefe.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
For their heart meditates [on] destruction, "" And their lips speak perverseness.

Young's Literal Translation
For destruction doth their heart meditate, And perverseness do their lips speak.

Smith's Literal Translation
For their heart will meditate destruction, and their lips will speak labor.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
Because their mind studieth robberies, and their lips speak deceits.

Catholic Public Domain Version
For their mind meditates on robberies, and their lips speak deceptions.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
Because they devise evil in their heart, and their lips speak evil.

Lamsa Bible
For their hearts devise evil and their lips talk of iniquity.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
For their heart studieth destruction, And their lips talk of mischief.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
For their heart meditates falsehoods, and their lips speak mischiefs.
















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