Proverbs 6:12 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹²A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth.

Proverbs 6:12 —

Old words in this verse

naughty: — bad, worthless.
froward: — stubborn, twisted, contrary.

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Matthew 12:34
O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.
Proverbs 4:24
Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee.
Proverbs 16:27
An ungodly man diggeth up evil: and in his lips there is as a burning fire.
1 Timothy 5:13
And withal they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.
Proverbs 17:4
A wicked doer giveth heed to false lips; and a liar giveth ear to a naughty tongue.

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Commentary

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

(vv. 12-19)

Solomon here gives us, I. The characters of one that is mischievous to man and dangerous to be dealt with. If the slothful are to be condemned, that do nothing, much more those that do ill, and contrive to do all the ill they can. It is a naughty person that is here spoken of, Heb. A man of Belial; I think it should have been so translated, because it is a term often used in scripture, and this is…

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

(vv. 12)

12. A naughty person--literally, “A man of Belial,” or of worthlessness, that is, for good, and so depraved, or wicked (compare 1Sa 25:25; 30:22, &c.). Idleness and vice are allied. Though indolent in acts, he actively and habitually (walketh) is ill-natured in speech (Pr 4:24).