Proverbs 6:12

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אָדָ֣ם בְּ֭לִיַּעַל אִ֣ישׁ אָ֑וֶן ה֝וֹלֵ֗ךְ עִקְּשׁ֥וּת פֶּֽה׃

Transliteration

ʾādām bəliyyaʿal ʾîš ʾāwen hôlēḵ ʿiqqəšût peh

Grammar Details

• *ʾādām*: noun, masculine singular - man/human
• *bəliyyaʿal*: noun, masculine singular - worthlessness/wickedness
• *ʾîš*: noun, masculine singular - man
• *ʾāwen*: noun, masculine singular - wickedness/iniquity
• *hôlēḵ*: verb, qal participle masculine singular - walking/going
• *ʿiqqəšût*: noun, feminine singular construct - crookedness/perversity of
• *peh*: noun, masculine singular - mouth

Word Meanings

• *bəliyyaʿal*: worthlessness/wickedness/vileness
• *ʾāwen*: wickedness/iniquity/trouble
• *ʿiqqəšût*: crookedness/perversity/distortion

Referenced Verses

• Prov 4:24 : 24 Put away from thee a wayward mouth, And perverse lips put far from thee.
• Prov 16:27 : 27 A worthless man deviseth mischief; And in his lips there is as a scorching fire.
• Prov 17:4 : 4 An evil-doer giveth heed to wicked lips; [And] a liar giveth ear to a mischievous tongue.
• Matt 12:34 : 34 Ye offspring of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.
• Acts 20:30 : 30 and from among your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.
• 1 Tim 5:13 : 13 And withal they learn also [to be] idle, going about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.
• Titus 1:10-11 : 10 For there are many unruly men, {G2532} vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision, 11 whose mouths must be stopped; men who overthrow whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake.
• Jas 3:6 : 6 And the tongue is a fire: the world of iniquity among our members {G3779} is the tongue, which defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the wheel of nature, and is set on fire by hell.
• Prov 6:14 : 14 In whose heart is perverseness, Who deviseth evil continually, Who soweth discord.
• Prov 8:13 : 13 The fear of Jehovah is to hate evil: Pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, And the perverse mouth, do I hate.
• Prov 11:6 : 6 The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them; But the treacherous shall be taken in their own iniquity.
• Ps 10:3 : 3 For the wicked boasteth of his heart's desire, And the covetous renounceth, [yea], contemneth Jehovah.
• Ps 10:7 : 7 His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and oppression: Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.
• Ps 36:3 : 3 The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: He hath ceased to be wise [and] to do good.
• Ps 52:2-4 : 2 Thy tongue deviseth very wickedness, Like a sharp razor, working deceitfully. 3 Thou lovest evil more than good, And lying rather than to speak righteousness. {H5542} 4 Thou lovest all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue.
• Ps 59:7 : 7 Behold, they belch out with their mouth; Swords are in their lips: For who, [say they], doth hear?
• Ps 73:8-9 : 8 They scoff, and in wickedness utter oppression: They speak loftily. 9 They have set their mouth in the heavens, And their tongue walketh through the earth.
• Prov 2:12 : 12 To deliver thee from the way of evil, From the men that speak perverse things;
• Jas 1:21 : 21 Wherefore putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.
• Jer 24:2 : 2 One basket had very good figs, like the figs that are first-ripe; and the other basket had very bad figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad.
• Jer 24:8-9 : 8 And as the bad figs, which cannot be eaten, they are so bad, surely thus saith Jehovah, So will I give up Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his princes, and the residue of Jerusalem, that remain in this land, and them that dwell in the land of Egypt, 9 I will even give them up to be tossed to and fro among all the kingdoms of the earth for evil; to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places whither I shall drive them. 10 And I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, among them, till they be consumed from off the land that I gave unto them and to their fathers.
• 1 Sam 17:28 : 28 And Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spake unto the men; and Eliab's anger was kindled against David, and he said, Why art thou come down? and with whom hast thou left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know thy pride, and the naughtiness of thy heart; for thou art come down that thou mightest see the battle.