A worthless man digs up evil, and his speech is like a scorching fire.
Cross References
James 3:6The tongue also is a fire, a world of wickedness among the parts of the body. It pollutes the whole person, sets the course of his life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell.
Proverbs 6:12A worthless person, a wicked man, walks with a perverse mouth,
Proverbs 6:14With deceit in his heart he devises evil; he continually sows discord.
Proverbs 16:26A worker's appetite works for him because his hunger drives him onward.
Proverbs 16:28A perverse man spreads dissension, and a gossip divides close friends.
Treasury of Scripture
An ungodly man digs up evil: and in his lips there is as a burning fire.
an ungodly man a man of Belial
1 Samuel 25:17
Now therefore know and consider what thou wilt do; for evil is determined against our master, and against all his household: for he is such a son of Belial, that a man cannot speak to him.
2 Samuel 20:1
And there happened to be there a man of Belial, whose name was Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjamite: and he blew a trumpet, and said, We have no part in David, neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse: every man to his tents, O Israel.
diggeth
Proverbs 2:4
If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures;
Psalm 17:14,15
From men which are thy hand, O LORD, from men of the world, which have their portion in this life, and whose belly thou fillest with thy hid treasure: they are full of children, and leave the rest of their substance to their babes…
Isaiah 5:18
Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope:
in
Psalm 52:2-4
Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp rasor, working deceitfully…
Psalm 57:4
My soul is among lions: and I lie even among them that are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.
James 3:6
And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.
