Verse 5

Everyone will make sport of his neighbour with deceit, not saying what is true: their tongues have been trained to say false words; they are twisted, hating to come back.

Referenced Verses

  • Job 15:5 : 5 For your mouth is guided by your sin, and you have taken the tongue of the false for yourself.
  • Mic 6:12 : 12 For its men of wealth are cruel, and its people have said what is not true, and their tongue is false in their mouth.
  • Hab 2:13 : 13 See, is it not the pleasure of the Lord of armies that the peoples are working for the fire and using themselves up for nothing?
  • Eph 4:25 : 25 And so, putting away false words, let everyone say what is true to his neighbour: for we are parts one of another.
  • 1 Tim 4:2 : 2 Through the false ways of men whose words are untrue, whose hearts are burned as with a heated iron;
  • Gen 19:11 : 11 But the men who were outside the door they made blind, all of them, small and great, so that they were tired out with looking for the door.
  • Job 11:3 : 3 Are your words of pride to make men keep quiet? and are you to make sport, with no one to put you to shame?
  • Ps 7:14 : 14 That man is a worker of evil; the seed of wrongdoing has given birth to deceit.
  • Ps 50:19 : 19 You have given your mouth to evil, your tongue to words of deceit.
  • Ps 64:3 : 3 Who make their tongues sharp like a sword, and whose arrows are pointed, even bitter words;
  • Ps 140:3 : 3 Their tongues are sharp like the tongue of a snake; the poison of snakes is under their lips. (Selah.)
  • Prov 4:16 : 16 For they take no rest till they have done evil; their sleep is taken away if they have not been the cause of someone's fall.
  • Isa 5:18 : 18 Cursed are those who make use of ox-cords for pulling the evil thing, and the bands of a young ox for their sin!
  • Isa 41:6-7 : 6 They gave help everyone to his neighbour; and everyone said to his brother, Take heart! 7 So the metal-worker put heart into the gold-worker, and he who was hammering the metal smooth said kind words to the iron-worker, saying of the plate, It is ready: and he put it together with nails, so that there might be no slipping.
  • Isa 44:12-14 : 12 The iron-worker is heating the metal in the fire, giving it form with his hammers, and working on it with his strong arm: then for need of food his strength gives way, and for need of water he becomes feeble. 13 The woodworker is measuring out the wood with his line, marking it out with his pencil: after smoothing it with his plane, and making circles on it with his instrument, he gives it the form and glory of a man, so that it may be placed in the house. 14 He has cedars cut down for himself, he takes an oak and lets it get strong among the trees of the wood; he has an ash-tree planted, and the rain gives it growth.
  • Isa 57:10 : 10 You were tired with your long journeys; but you did not say, There is no hope: you got new strength, and so you were not feeble.
  • Isa 59:13-15 : 13 We have gone against the Lord, and been false to him, turning away from our God, our words have been uncontrolled, and in our hearts are thoughts of deceit. 14 And the right is turned back, and righteousness is far away: for good faith is not to be seen in the public places, and upright behaviour may not come into the town. 15 Yes, faith is gone; and he whose heart is turned from evil comes into the power of the cruel: and the Lord saw it, and he was angry that there was no one to take up their cause.
  • Jer 9:3 : 3 Their tongues are bent like a bow to send out false words: they have become strong in the land, but not for good faith: they go on from evil to evil, and they have no knowledge of me, says the Lord.
  • Jer 9:8 : 8 His tongue is an arrow causing death; the words of his mouth are deceit: he says words of peace to his neighbour, but in his heart he is waiting secretly for him.
  • Ezek 24:12 : 12 I have made myself tired to no purpose: still all the waste which is in her has not come out, it has an evil smell.
  • Mic 6:3 : 3 O my people, what have I done to you? how have I been a weariness to you? give answer against me.