Proverbs 16:28

Modern

A perverse man spreads dissension, and a gossip divides close friends.

Traditional

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

Literal

A man of perversity sends out strife, and a murmurer is separating a close friend.

Latin

Homo perversus suscitat lites, et verbosus separat principes.

Hebrew

English

A perverse man spreads dissension, and a gossip divides close friends.

Scoundrels, troublemakers, and violent people disrupt relationships by causing harm with their actions.

Proverbs 17:9
Whoever conceals an offense promotes love, but he who brings it up separates friends.
Romans 1:29
They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed, and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, and malice. They are gossips,
James 3:14–16
But if you harbor bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast in it or deny the truth.
Proverbs 18:8
The words of a gossip are like choice morsels that go down into the inmost being.
Proverbs 15:18
A hot-tempered man stirs up strife, but he who is slow to anger calms dispute.
Proverbs 6:14
With deceit in his heart he devises evil; he continually sows discord.
1 Timothy 6:3–5
If anyone teaches another doctrine and disagrees with the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ and with godly teaching,
Proverbs 6:19
…a false witness who gives false testimony, and one who stirs up discord among brothers.
Genesis 3:1–13
Now the serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field that the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden?’”
Proverbs 30:33
For as the churning of milk yields butter, and the twisting of the nose draws blood, so the stirring of anger brings forth strife.”
1 Samuel 24:9
…and said to Saul, “Why do you listen to the words of men who say, ‘Look, David intends to harm you’?
Proverbs 26:20–22
Without wood, a fire goes out; without gossip, a conflict ceases.