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Proverbs 16:27

NETBible	A wicked scoundrel¹ digs up² evil, and his slander³ is like a scorching fire.⁴
NIV © biblegateway Pro 16:27	A scoundrel plots evil, and his speech is like a scorching fire.
NASB © biblegateway Pro 16:27	A worthless man digs up evil, While his words are like scorching fire.
NLT © biblegateway Pro 16:27	Scoundrels hunt for scandal; their words are a destructive blaze.
MSG © biblegateway Pro 16:27	Mean people spread mean gossip; their words smart and burn.
BBE © SABDAweb Pro 16:27	A good-for-nothing man is a designer of evil, and in his lips there is a burning fire.
NRSV © bibleoremus Pro 16:27	Scoundrels concoct evil, and their speech is like a scorching fire.
NKJV © biblegateway Pro 16:27	An ungodly man digs up evil, And it is on his lips like a burning fire.
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KJV	An ungodly <01100> man <0376> diggeth up <03738> (8802) evil <07451>_: and in his lips <08193> [there is] as a burning <06867> fire <0784>_. {An...: Heb. A man of Belial}
NASB © biblegateway Pro 16:27	A worthless <01100> man <0376> digs <03738> up evil <07463> , While <05921> his words <08193> are like scorching <06866> fire <0784> .
LXXM	anhr <435> N-NSM afrwn <878> A-NSM orussei <3736> V-PAI-3S eautw <1438> D-DSM kaka <2556> A-APN epi <1909> PREP de <1161> PRT twn <3588> T-GPN eautou <1438> D-GSM ceilewn <5491> N-GPN yhsaurizei <2343> V-PAI-3S pur <4442> N-ASN
NET [draft] ITL	A wicked <01100> scoundrel <0376> digs up <03738> evil <07451> , and his slander <08193> is like a scorching <06867> fire <0784> .
HEBREW	tbru <06867> sak <0784> *wtpv {wytpv} <08193> lew <05921> her <07451> hrk <03738> leylb <01100> sya (16:27) <0376>

NETBible

A wicked scoundrel¹ digs up² evil, and his slander³ is like a scorching fire.⁴

NET Notes

¹tn Heb “a man of belial.” This phrase means “wicked scoundrel.” Some translate “worthless” (so ASV, NASB, CEV), but the phrase includes deep depravity and wickedness (C. H. Toy, Proverbs [ICC], 125-26).

²tn Heb “digs up” (so NASB). The “wicked scoundrel” finds out about evil and brings it to the surface (Prov 26:27; Jer 18:20). What he digs up he spreads by speech.

³tn Heb “on his lips” (so NAB) The term “lips” is a metonymy of cause. To say that “evil” is on his lips means that he talks about the evil he has dug up.

⁴sn The simile stresses the devastating way that slander hurts people. W. McKane says that this one “digs for scandal and…propagates it with words which are ablaze with misanthropy” (Proverbs [OTL], 494).