Proverbs 16:27
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The wicked man diggeth evil, and in his lips is a burning fire.

an ungodly man a man of Belial

1 Samuel 25:17 Wherefore consider, and think what thou hast to do: for evil is determined against thy husband, and against thy house, and he is a son of Belial, so that no man can speak to him.

2 Samuel 20:1 And there happened to be there a man of Belial, whose name was Seba, the son of Bochri, a man of Jemini: and he sounded the trumpet, and said: We have no part in David, nor inheritance in the son of Isai: return to thy dwellings, O Israel.

diggeth

Proverbs 2:4 Then shalt thou understand the fear of the Lord, and shalt find the knowledge of God:

Psalm 17:14,15 From the enemies of thy hand. O Lord, divide them from the few of the earth in their life: their belly is filled from thy hidden stores. They are full of children: and they have left to their little ones the rest of their substance. . . .

Isaiah 5:18 Woe to you that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as the rope of a cart.

Habakkuk 2:13 Are not these things from the Lord of hosts? for the people shall labour in a great fire: and the nations in vain, and they shall faint.

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Psalm 52:2-4 All the day long thy tongue hath devised injustice: as a sharp razor, thou hast wrought deceit. . . .

Psalm 57:4 And he hath delivered my soul from the midst of the young lions. I slept troubled. The sons of men, whose teeth are weapons and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.

James 3:6 And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity. The tongue is placed among our members, which defileth the whole body and inflameth the wheel of our nativity, being set on fire by hell.

Context
The Reply of the Tongue is from the LORD
26The soul of him that laboureth, laboureth for himself, because his mouth hath obliged him to it. 27The wicked man diggeth evil, and in his lips is a burning fire.28A perverse man stirreth up quarrels: and one full of words separateth princes.…
Cross References
James 3:6
And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity. The tongue is placed among our members, which defileth the whole body and inflameth the wheel of our nativity, being set on fire by hell.

Proverbs 6:12
He winketh with the eyes, presseth with the foot, speaketh with the finger.

Proverbs 6:14
To such a one his destruction shall presently come, and he shall suddenly be destroyed, and shall no longer have any remedy.

Proverbs 16:26
The soul of him that laboureth, laboureth for himself, because his mouth hath obliged him to it.

Proverbs 16:28
A perverse man stirreth up quarrels: and one full of words separateth princes.

Lexicon
A worthless
בְּ֭לִיַּעַל (bə·lî·ya·‘al)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1100: Without profit, worthlessness, destruction, wickedness

man
אִ֣ישׁ (’îš)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 376: A man as an individual, a male person

digs up
כֹּרֶ֣ה (kō·reh)
Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3738: To dig, to plot, to bore, open

evil,
רָעָ֑ה (rā·‘āh)
Adjective - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7451: Bad, evil

and his speech
שְׂ֝פָת֗וֹ (p̄ā·ṯōw)
Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 8193: The lip, language, a margin

is like a scorching
צָרָֽבֶת׃ (ṣā·rā·ḇeṯ)
Adjective - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 6867: Scab, scar (of a sore)

fire.
כְּאֵ֣שׁ (kə·’êš)
Preposition-k | Noun - common singular
Strong's Hebrew 784: A fire


Additional Translations
A worthless man digs up evil, and his speech is like a scorching fire.An ungodly man digs up evil: and in his lips there is as a burning fire.

A worthless man deviseth mischief; And in his lips there is as a scorching fire.

But the perverse bears destruction upon his own mouth: a foolish man digs up evil for himself, and treasures fire on his own lips.

A man of Belial diggeth up evil, and on his lips there is as a scorching fire.

A worthless man deviseth mischief: and in his lips there is as a scorching fire.

An ungodly man diggeth up evil: and in his lips there is as a burning fire.

A worthless man devises mischief. His speech is like a scorching fire.

A worthless man is preparing evil, And on his lips -- as a burning fire.
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