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Proverbs 16:28
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A troublemaker plants seeds of strife; gossip separates the best of friends.
A perverse man scatters abroad strife; And a whisperer separates chief friends.
A useless person causes trouble, and a gossip ruins friendships.
A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends.
A perverse man stirs up strife. A whisperer separates close friends.
A perverse man spreads strife, And one who gossips separates intimate friends.
A dishonest man spreads strife, and a whisperer separates close friends.
A weiward man reisith stryues; and a man ful of wordis departith princis.
A froward man scattereth abroad strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends.
A perverse man spreads dissension, and a gossip divides close friends.
Gossip is no good! It causes hard feelings and comes between friends.
A perverse man scattereth abroad strife; And a whisperer separateth chief friends.
A man of twisted purposes is a cause of fighting everywhere: and he who says evil secretly makes trouble between friends.
A deceitful person stirs up strife, and a slanderer can separate even close friends.
A false man soweth contention; and a talebearer separateth very friends.
Troublemakers are always causing problems. Their gossip breaks up the closest of friends.
A froward man soweth strife; and a whisperer separateth familiar friends.
A froward man soweth strife; & a whisperer separateth chiefe friends.
A bad man spreads trouble. One who hurts people with bad talk separates good friends.
A perverse person spreads strife, and a whisperer separates close friends.
A frowarde person soweth strife: and a tale teller maketh diuision among princes.
A wicked man threatens justice and persecutes his neighbor without cause.
Gossip is spread by wicked people; they stir up trouble and break up friendships.
A perverse man, sendeth forth strife, and, a tattler, separateth intimate friends.
A perverse man stirreth up quarrels: and one full of words separateth princes.
A perverse man spreads strife, and a whisperer separates close friends.
A frowarde body causeth strife: and he that is a blabbe of his tongue maketh deuision among princes.
A perverse man spreads mischief, and will kindle a torch of deceit with mischiefs; and he separates friends.
A contrary person spreads conflict,and a gossip separates close friends.
A perverse man stirs up strife. A whisperer separates close friends.
A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends.
A person of perversity will spread dissent, and he who whispers separates a close friend.
A perverse man causes strife, and a whisperer separates close friends.
A froward man sendeth forth contention, A tale-bearer is separating a familiar friend.
A frowarde body causeth strife, and he yt is a blabbe of his tonge, maketh deuysion amonge prynces.
Troublemakers start fights; gossips break up friendships.
A perverse person spreads strife, And a slanderer separates close friends.
A perverse man sows strife, And a whisperer separates the best of friends.
A perverse man spreads strife, And a slanderer separates intimate friends.
A perverse man spreads strife,And a whisperer separates close companions.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
froward: Proverbs 6:14, Proverbs 6:19, Proverbs 15:18, Proverbs 18:8, Proverbs 26:20-22, Proverbs 29:22, Proverbs 30:33, 1 Timothy 6:3-5, James 3:14-16
soweth: Heb. sendeth forth
a whisperer: Proverbs 17:9, Genesis 3:1-13, 1 Samuel 24:9, Romans 1:29, 2 Corinthians 12:20
Reciprocal: Psalms 41:7 - whisper Proverbs 2:12 - from the man Proverbs 18:6 - fool's
Gill's Notes on the Bible
A froward man soweth strife,.... Or "a man of perversenesses" q; in whose heart is frowardness and perverseness; and whose mouth speaketh froward and perverse things, contrary to reason, law, and Gospel; and who has a spirit of contradiction, and is contrary to all men in his principles and practices; such a man sows discord and strife wherever he comes, in families, in neighbourhoods, in churches, in commonwealths, in civil and religious societies; and he seldom fails of finding a soil fit for his purpose, or ground susceptive of the seed he sows, where it takes root and thrives; see Proverbs 6:19;
and a whisperer separateth chief friends; one that goes from place to place, from house to house, carrying tales, whispering into the ears of persons things prejudicial to the characters of others, mere lies and falsehoods; such a man by his conduct separates one friend from another, even chief friends, that have been for a long time in the closest and most intimate friendship; he alienates their minds one from another, so that they will not come near one another, or keep up any correspondence as before. The word for "chief friends" is in the singular number, and signifies a prince or leader; and such men, according to the station they are in, and the influence they have, separate princes, as the Vulgate Latin version renders it, from their subjects, and stir up the latter to rebel against them; at least alienate their affections from them; and pastors of churches from their flocks, and husbands from their wives: and such a man, at last, when found out, separates his best friends from himself, as well as from one another; who drop him as a worthless person, yea, as dangerous to converse with; so sin, that whisperer and agitator, separates between God and men, Isaiah 59:2.
q איש תהפכות "vir perversitatum", Montanus, Baynus, Schultens; "vir perversitatibus deditus", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The four verses speak of the same thing, and the well-known opprobrious name, the “man of Belial,” stands at the head as stigmatizing the man who delights in causing the mischief of which they treat.
Diggeth up evil - i. e., Digs an evil pit for others to fall into. Compare Psalms 7:15.
Proverbs 16:30
The physiognomy of the man of Belial, the half-closed eyes that never look you straight in the face, the restlessness or cunning of which biting the lips is the surest indication. Compare Proverbs 6:13.
