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Isaiah 32:6

For a fool speaks foolishness; his mind plots iniquity. He practices ungodliness and speaks falsely about the LORD; he leaves the hungry empty and deprives the thirsty of drink.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

For the vile person will speak villany, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and to utter error against the LORD, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.

World English Bible

For the fool will speak folly, and his heart will work iniquity, to practice profanity, and to utter error against the LORD, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and to cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.

American Standard Version

For the fool will speak folly, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise profaneness, and to utter error against Jehovah, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and to cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.

Geneva Bible 1599

But the nigarde will speake of nigardnesse, and his heart will worke iniquitie, and do wickedly, and speake falsely against the Lord, to make emptie the hungrie soule, and to cause the drinke of the thirstie to faile.

Darby Translation

for the vile man will speak villainy, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and to utter error against Jehovah, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and to cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.

Young's Literal Translation

For a fool speaketh folly, And his heart doth iniquity, to do profanity, And to speak concerning Jehovah error, To empty the soul of the hungry, Yea, drink of the thirsty he causeth to lack.

Bible in Basic English

For the foolish man will say foolish things, having evil thoughts in his heart, working what is unclean, and talking falsely about the Lord, to keep food from him who is in need of it, and water from him whose soul is desiring it.

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Cross references

“the vile”

Matthew 15:19 1 Samuel 24:13 Jeremiah 13:23 Matthew 12:34–36 1 Samuel 25:10 1 Samuel 25:11

Matthew 15:19 · BSB

For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, and slander.

1 Samuel 24:13 · BSB

As the old proverb says, ‘Wickedness proceeds from the wicked.’ But my hand will never be against you.

Jeremiah 13:23 · BSB

Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? Neither are you able to do good— you who are accustomed to doing evil.

Matthew 12:34–36 · BSB

You brood of vipers, how can you who are evil say anything good? For out of the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks.

1 Samuel 25:10 · BSB

But Nabal asked them, “Who is David? Who is this son of Jesse? Many servants these days are breaking away from their masters.

1 Samuel 25:11 · BSB

Why should I take my bread and water and the meat I have slaughtered for my shearers, and give them to these men whose origin I do not know?”

“and his heart”

Psalm 58:1 Psalm 58:2 Hosea 7:6 Hosea 7:7 Micah 2:1 Micah 2:2

Psalm 58:1 · BSB

Do you indeed speak justly, O rulers? Do you judge uprightly, O sons of men?

Psalm 58:2 · BSB

No, in your hearts you devise injustice; with your hands you mete out violence on the earth.

Hosea 7:6 · BSB

For they prepare their heart like an oven while they lie in wait; all night their anger smolders; in the morning it blazes like a flaming fire.

Hosea 7:7 · BSB

All of them are hot as an oven, and they devour their rulers. All their kings fall; not one of them calls upon Me.

Micah 2:1 · BSB

Woe to those who devise iniquity and plot evil on their beds! At morning’s light they accomplish it because the power is in their hands.

Micah 2:2 · BSB

They covet fields and seize them; they take away houses. They deprive a man of his home, a fellow man of his inheritance.

“empty”

Proverbs 11:24–26 Job 22:5–9 Job 24:2–16 Amos 8:6 Micah 3:1–3 James 1:27

Proverbs 11:24–26 · BSB

One gives freely, yet gains even more; another withholds what is right, only to become poor.

Job 22:5–9 · BSB

Is not your wickedness great? Are not your iniquities endless?

Job 24:2–16 · BSB

Men move boundary stones; they pasture stolen flocks.

Amos 8:6 · BSB

Let us buy the poor with silver and the needy for a pair of sandals, selling even the chaff with the wheat!”

Micah 3:1–3 · BSB

Then I said: “Hear now, O leaders of Jacob, you rulers of the house of Israel. Should you not know justice?

James 1:27 · BSB

Pure and undefiled religion before our God and Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.

Also

Matthew 23:13 Isaiah 3:15 Proverbs 19:3 Isaiah 9:17

Matthew 23:13 · BSB

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the kingdom of heaven in men’s faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let in those who wish to enter.

Isaiah 3:15 · BSB

Why do you crush My people and grind the faces of the poor?” declares the Lord GOD of Hosts.

Proverbs 19:3 · BSB

A man’s own folly subverts his way, yet his heart rages against the LORD.

Isaiah 9:17 · BSB

Therefore the Lord takes no pleasure in their young men; He has no compassion on their fatherless and widows. For every one of them is godless and wicked, and every mouth speaks folly. Despite all this, His anger is not…

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

5No longer will a fool be called noble, nor a scoundrel be respected.

7The weapons of the scoundrel are destructive; he hatches plots to destroy the poor with lies, even when the plea of the needy is just.

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