Proverbs 16:28 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁸A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends.

Proverbs 16:28 —

Old words in this verse

froward: — stubborn, twisted, contrary.

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 17:9
He that covereth a transgression seeketh love; but he that repeateth a matter separateth very friends.
Romans 1:29
Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
Proverbs 15:18
A wrathful man stirreth up strife: but he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife.
James 3:14-16
But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. …
Proverbs 18:8
The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.

Topics

Accusation, False Anger Backbiting Busybody Contention Gossip Railing Slander

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 27-28)

There are those that are not only vicious themselves, but spiteful and mischievous to others, and they are the worst of men; two sorts of such are here described:—1. Such as envy a man the honour of his good name, and do all they can to blast that by calumnies and misrepresentations: They dig up evil; they take a great deal of pains to find out something or other on which to ground a slander, or w…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 28)

28. (Compare Pr 6:14; 10:31). whisperer--prater, talebearer (Pr 18:8; 26:20).