Proverbs 6:12

Translations

King James Version (KJV)

A naughty person, a wicked man, walks with a fraudulent mouth.

American King James Version (AKJV)

A naughty person, a wicked man, walks with a fraudulent mouth.

American Standard Version (ASV)

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

Basic English Translation (BBE)

A good-for-nothing man is an evil-doer; he goes on his way causing trouble with false words;

Webster's Revision

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

World English Bible

A worthless person, a man of iniquity, is he who walks with a perverse mouth;

English Revised Version (ERV)

A worthless person, a man of iniquity; he walketh with a froward mouth;

Definitions for Proverbs 6:12

Froward - Perverse; deceitful; false.

Clarke's Proverbs 6:12 Bible Commentary

A naughty person - אדם בליעל adam beliyal, "Adam good for nothing." When he lost his innocence. A man apostata; Old MS. Bible.

A wicked man - איש און ish aven. He soon became a general transgressor after having departed from his God. All his posterity, unless restored by Divine grace, are men of Belial, and sinners by trade; and most of them, in one form or other, answer the character here given. They yield their members instruments of unrighteousness unto sin.

Barnes's Proverbs 6:12 Bible Commentary

A naughty person - literally, "a man of Belial," i. e., a worthless man (see the Deuteronomy 13:13 note). This is the portrait of the man who is not to be trusted, whose look and gestures warn against him all who can observe. His speech is tortuous and crafty; his wink tells the accomplice that the victim is already snared; his gestures with foot and hand are half in deceit, and half in mockery.