Proverbs 16:26-28

Easy-to-Read Version

²⁶The thought of hunger keeps the workers working so that they can eat.

²⁷Troublemakers create disasters. Their advice destroys like a wildfire.

²⁸Troublemakers are always causing problems. Their gossip breaks up the closest of friends.

Proverbs 16:26-28

New International Version

²⁶The appetite of laborers works for them;
their hunger drives them on.

²⁷A scoundrel^(A) plots evil,
and on their lips it is like a scorching fire.^(B)

²⁸A perverse person stirs up conflict,^(C)
and a gossip separates close friends.^(D)

Easy-to-Read Version (ERV)

New International Version (NIV)