Proverbs 16:28 · KJV
“A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends. {soweth: Heb. sendeth forth}”
— Proverbs 16:28
An ungodly man diggeth up evil: and in his lips {there is} as a burning fire. {An...: Heb. A man of Belial}
A violent man enticeth his neighbour, and leadeth him into the way {that is} not good.
Proverbs 16 — Context
He that laboureth laboureth for himself; for his mouth craveth it of him. {He...: Heb. The soul of him that} {craveth...: Heb. boweth unto him}
27An ungodly man diggeth up evil: and in his lips {there is} as a burning fire. {An...: Heb. A man of Belial}
28A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends. {soweth: Heb. sendeth forth}
29A violent man enticeth his neighbour, and leadeth him into the way {that is} not good.
30He shutteth his eyes to devise froward things: moving his lips he bringeth evil to pass.
Cross References
Proverbs 17:9
He that covereth a transgression seeketh love; but he that repeateth a matter separateth {very} friends. {seeketh: or, procureth}
James 3:14-16
But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
Proverbs 15:18
A wrathful man stirreth up strife: but {he that is} slow to anger appeaseth strife.
Romans 1:29
Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
Proverbs 18:8
The words of a talebearer {are} as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly. {talebearer: or, whisperer} {as wounds: or, like as when men are wounded} {most...: Heb. chambers}
Proverbs 6:14
Frowardness {is} in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually; he soweth discord. {soweth: Heb. casteth forth}
1 Timothy 6:3-5
If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, {even} the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness;
Genesis 3:1-13
Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? {Yea...: Heb. Yea, because, etc.}