27 A scoundrel(A) plots evil,
    and on their lips it is like a scorching fire.(B)

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

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27 [a]An ungodly man digs up evil,
And it is on his lips like a burning (A)fire.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 16:27 Lit. A man of Belial

The tongue also is a fire,(A) a world of evil among the parts of the body. It corrupts the whole body,(B) sets the whole course of one’s life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell.(C)

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And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.

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And (A)the tongue is a fire, a world of [a]iniquity. The tongue is so set among our members that it (B)defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of [b]nature; and it is set on fire by [c]hell.

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Footnotes

  1. James 3:6 unrighteousness
  2. James 3:6 existence
  3. James 3:6 Gr. Gehenna