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12 A worthless person, a man of iniquity,
Is he that walketh with a perverse mouth;

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Against Worthlessness

12 A worthless man, an evil man,
    goes around with deceitful speech.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 6:12 Literally “crookedness of mouth”

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

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 16:27 Hebrew diggeth.

27 A man of wickedness concocts evil,
    and his lips are like a scorching fire.

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