Proverbs 6:14
New International Version
who plots evil with deceit in his heart— he always stirs up conflict.

New Living Translation
Their perverted hearts plot evil, and they constantly stir up trouble.

English Standard Version
with perverted heart devises evil, continually sowing discord;

Berean Standard Bible
With deceit in his heart he devises evil; he continually sows discord.

King James Bible
Frowardness is in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually; he soweth discord.

New King James Version
Perversity is in his heart, He devises evil continually, He sows discord.

New American Standard Bible
Who, with perversion in his heart, continually devises evil, Who spreads strife.

NASB 1995
Who with perversity in his heart continually devises evil, Who spreads strife.

NASB 1977
Who with perversity in his heart devises evil continually, Who spreads strife.

Legacy Standard Bible
Who with perversity in his heart continually devises evil, Who spreads contentions.

Amplified Bible
Who perversely in his heart plots trouble and evil continually; Who spreads discord and strife.

Christian Standard Bible
He always plots evil with perversity in his heart; he stirs up trouble.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
He always plots evil with perversity in his heart— he stirs up trouble.

American Standard Version
In whose heart is perverseness, Who deviseth evil continually, Who soweth discord.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And he is turned backward in his heart and devises evil always, and he stirs up strife between two.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
His perverse heart devises evils: at all times such a one causes troubles to a city.

Contemporary English Version
They are always thinking up something cruel and evil, and they stir up trouble.

Douay-Rheims Bible
With a wicked heart he deviseth evil, and at all times he soweth discord.

English Revised Version
Frowardness is in his heart, he deviseth evil continually; he soweth discord.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
He devises evil all the time with a twisted mind. He spreads conflict.

Good News Translation
all the while planning evil in their perverted minds, stirring up trouble everywhere.

International Standard Version
planning evil with a perverse mind, continually stirring up discord.

JPS Tanakh 1917
Frowardness is in his heart, he deviseth evil continually; He soweth discord.

Literal Standard Version
Contrariness [is] in his heart, devising evil at all times, | He sends forth contentions.

Majority Standard Bible
With deceit in his heart he devises evil; he continually sows discord.

New American Bible
They have perversity in their hearts, always plotting evil, sowing discord.

NET Bible
he plots evil with perverse thoughts in his heart, he spreads contention at all times.

New Revised Standard Version
with perverted mind devising evil, continually sowing discord;

New Heart English Bible
in whose heart is perverseness, who devises evil continually, who always sows discord.

Webster's Bible Translation
Frowardness is in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually; he soweth discord.

World English Bible
in whose heart is perverseness, who devises evil continually, who always sows discord.

Young's Literal Translation
Frowardness is in his heart, devising evil at all times, Contentions he sendeth forth.

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Context
Warnings Against Foolishness
13winking his eyes, speaking with his feet, and pointing with his fingers. 14With deceit in his heart he devises evil; he continually sows discord. 15Therefore calamity will come upon him suddenly; in an instant he will be shattered beyond recovery.…

Cross References
Psalm 140:2
who devise evil in their hearts and stir up war all day long.

Proverbs 3:29
Do not devise evil against your neighbor, for he trustfully dwells beside you.

Proverbs 6:19
a false witness who gives false testimony, and one who stirs up discord among brothers.

Proverbs 16:27
A worthless man digs up evil, and his speech is like a scorching fire.

Proverbs 16:28
A perverse man spreads dissension, and a gossip divides close friends.

Proverbs 17:20
The one with a perverse heart finds no good, and he whose tongue is deceitful falls into trouble.

Proverbs 24:8
He who plots evil will be called a schemer.


Treasury of Scripture

Frowardness is in his heart, he devises mischief continually; he sows discord.

frowardness

Proverbs 2:14
Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness of the wicked;

Proverbs 16:28-30
A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends…

Proverbs 21:8
The way of man is froward and strange: but as for the pure, his work is right.

he deviseth

Proverbs 6:18
An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,

Psalm 36:4
He deviseth mischief upon his bed; he setteth himself in a way that is not good; he abhorreth not evil.

Isaiah 32:7
The instruments also of the churl are evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right.

soweth or casteth forth

Proverbs 6:19
A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.

Proverbs 16:28
A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends.

Proverbs 22:8
He that soweth iniquity shall reap vanity: and the rod of his anger shall fail.

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Verse 14. - From these external features the teacher passes to the heart the seat of all this mischief and deceit. In this respect we observe a striking correspondence with the method adopted by our Saviour in his leaching, who referred everything to the heart, as the true seat of all that was good or bad in man. Frowardness is in his heart (Hebrew, tah'pukoth b'libbo); i.e. his heart is full of perverse imaginations, it is there he nourishes his jealousy, his hatred, his malice, his ill will. It is there, too, he deviseth mischief continually. "Devising mischief" carries us one step further back in the history of evil. It is this feature, this deliberate premeditation to plot mischief and to devise means to carry it into execution, which makes the character of the man simply diabolical. He makes his heart as it were the workshop wherein he fabricates and prepares his villainy. The Hebrew kharash (to which the participle khoresh belongs) is equivalent to the Vulgate machinari, and the LXX. τεκαίνομαι, "to fabricate, devise, plot." (See Proverbs 3:29 and ver. 18; and cf. Psalm 36:4, "He deviseth mischief upon his bed.") The LXX. combines the two statements in one proposition: "A perverse heart deviseth evil at all times." Similarly the Vulgate, which, however, joins "continually" (Hebrew, b'koleth; Vulgate, omni tempore) to the second hemistich, thus: "And at all times he sows discord (et omni tempore jurgia seminat)." He soweth discord (Hebrew, mid'-yanim (Keri) y'shalleakh); literally, he sends forth (i.e. excites) strife; or, as the margin, he casteth forth strife. The Keri reading mid'yanim, for the Khetib m'danim, is probably, as Hitzig suggests, derived from Genesis 37:36. The phrase occurs again as shallakh m'danim in ver. 19, and as shillakh madon Proverbs 16:28 (cf. Proverbs 10:12). This is the culminating point in the character of the wicked man. He takes delight in breaking up friendship and in destroying concord among brethren (see ver. 19), and thus destroys one of the most essential elements for promoting individual happiness and the welfare of the community at large. This idea of the community is introduced into the LXX., which reads, "Such an one brings disturbance to the city (ὁ τοσοῦτος ταραχὰς συνίστησι πόλει)." The motive cause may be either malice or self-interest.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
With deceit
תַּֽהְפֻּכ֨וֹת ׀ (tah·pu·ḵō·wṯ)
Noun - feminine plural
Strong's 8419: Perversity, perverse thing

in his heart
בְּלִבּ֗וֹ (bə·lib·bōw)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 3820: The heart, the feelings, the will, the intellect, centre

he devises
חֹרֵ֣שׁ (ḥō·rêš)
Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's 2790: To cut in, engrave, plow, devise

evil;
רָ֣ע (rā‘)
Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's 7451: Bad, evil

he continually
בְּכָל־ (bə·ḵāl)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every

sows
יְשַׁלֵּֽחַ׃ (yə·šal·lê·aḥ)
Verb - Piel - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 7971: To send away, for, out

discord.
מִדְיָנִ֥ים (miḏ·yā·nîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 4066: A contest, quarrel


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