Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
A tongue of deceit hates its victim, and a flattering mouth makes ruin.
New American Standard Bible
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King James Version
A lying tongue hateth those that are afflicted by it; and a flattering mouth worketh ruin.
Holman Bible
and a flattering mouth causes ruin.
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International Standard Version
A lying tongue hates its victims, and a flattering mouth causes ruin.
A Conservative Version
A lying tongue hates those whom it has wounded, and a flattering mouth works ruin.
American Standard Version
A lying tongue hateth those whom it hath wounded; And a flattering mouth worketh ruin.
Amplified
A lying tongue hates those it wounds and crushes,
And a flattering mouth works ruin.
Bible in Basic English
A false tongue has hate for those who have clean hearts, and a smooth mouth is a cause of falling.
Darby Translation
A lying tongue hateth those that are injured by it, and a flattering mouth worketh ruin.
Julia Smith Translation
A tongue of falsehood will hate its crushing, and a smooth mouth will make an overthrow.
King James 2000
A lying tongue hates those that are afflicted by it; and a flattering mouth works ruin.
Modern King James verseion
A lying tongue hates those afflicted by it, and a flattering mouth works ruin.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
A dissembling tongue hateth one that rebuketh him; and a flattering mouth worketh mischief.
NET Bible
A lying tongue hates those crushed by it, and a flattering mouth works ruin.
New Heart English Bible
A lying tongue hates those it hurts; and a flattering mouth works ruin.
The Emphasized Bible
A false tongue, hateth them who are crushed by it, and, a flattering mouth, worketh occasion of stumbling.
Webster
A lying tongue hateth those that are afflicted by it; and a flattering mouth worketh ruin.
World English Bible
A lying tongue hates those it hurts; and a flattering mouth works ruin.
Youngs Literal Translation
A lying tongue hateth its bruised ones, And a flattering mouth worketh an overthrow!
Interlinear
Lashown
Peh
Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 26:28
Verse Info
Context Readings
All About Fools
27 He who digs a pit, in it he will fall, and he who rolls a stone, on him it will come back. 28 A tongue of deceit hates its victim, and a flattering mouth makes ruin.
Phrases
Cross References
Proverbs 29:5
A strong man who flatters his neighbor is spreading a net for his feet.
Proverbs 6:24
[in order] to preserve you from an evil woman, from the smoothness of [the] tongue of {an adulteress}.
Proverbs 7:5
[In order] to guard yourself from {an adulteress}, from the foreigner who {makes her words smooth}.
Proverbs 7:21-23
She persuades him with the greatness of her teachings; with her smooth lips she compels him.
Luke 20:20-21
And they watched [him] closely [and] sent spies who pretended they were upright, in order that they could catch him in a statement, so that they could hand him over to the authority and the jurisdiction of the governor.
John 8:40
But now you are seeking to kill me, a man who spoke to you the truth which I heard from God. This Abraham did not do.
John 8:44-49
You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father! That one was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand firm in the truth, because truth is not in him. Whenever he speaks the lie, he speaks from his own [nature], because he is a liar and the father {of lies}.
John 10:32-33
Jesus answered them, "I have shown you many good deeds from the Father. For which one of them are you going to stone me?"
John 15:22-24
If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have sin. But now they do not have a valid excuse for their sin.