King James Version
Proverbs 16:27 in the King James Version says “An ungodly man diggeth up evil: and in his lips there is as a burning fire. An: Heb. A man of Belial” — study this verse from Proverbs chapter 16 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“An ungodly man diggeth up evil: and in his lips there is as a burning fire. An: Heb. A man of Belial”
Proverbs 16:27 · KJV
There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.
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
An ungodly man diggeth up evil: and in his lips there is as a burning fire. An: Heb. A man of Belial
A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends. soweth: Heb. sendeth forth
A violent man enticeth his neighbour, and leadeth him into the way that is not good.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“man”
H376a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation)
“An ungodly”
H1100without profit, worthlessness; by extension, destruction, wickedness
above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
“and in his lips”
H8193the lip (as a natural boundary); by implication, language; by analogy, a margin (of a vessel, water, cloth, etc.)
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