Verse 8

Their tongues are like sharpe arrowes to speake deceipt: with their mouth they speake peaceablie to their neighbour, but priuilie they lay wayte for hym.

Referenced Verses

  • Ps 28:3 : 3 Take me not away with the vngodlye, and with the workers of iniquitie: whiche speake of peace to their neighbours, but mischiefe is in their heartes.
  • Jer 9:3 : 3 They bend their tongues like vowes to shoote out lyes, they waxe strong vppon earth: As for the trueth, they may nothing away withall in the worlde, for they go from one wickednes to another, and wyll not knowe me, saith the Lorde.
  • Ps 12:2 : 2 Euery one vseth vayne talke with his neyghbour: and speaketh with a double heart out of flatteryng lippes.
  • Ps 55:21 : 21 The wordes of his mouth were softer then butter, yet warre was in his heart: his wordes were smother then oyle, and yet be they very swordes.
  • Ps 57:4 : 4 My soule is among Lions, and I lye among those that are set on fire: among the children of men whose teeth are speares and arrowes, and their tongue a sharpe sword.
  • Ps 64:3-4 : 3 Who haue whet their tongue lyke a sword: who haue drawne their arrow, euen a bitter worde. 4 That they may priuily shoote at hym which is perfect: they do sodenly shoote at hym and feare not.
  • Ps 120:3 : 3 What doth a deceiptfull tongue vnto thee? what good bryngeth it thee?
  • Prov 26:24-26 : 24 An enemie wyll dissemble with his lippes, and layeth vp deceipt in his heart. 25 But when he speaketh fayre, beleue hym not: for there are seuen abhominations in his heart. 26 Hatred maye be couered by deceipt: but the malice therof shalbe shewed before the whole congregation.
  • Jer 5:26 : 26 For among my people are found wicked persons, that priuily lay snares and wayte for men, to take them and destroy them.
  • 2 Sam 3:27 : 27 And when Abner was come againe to Hebron, Ioab toke him asyde in the gate to speake with him peaceably, and smote him vnder the fyft ribbe, that he died for the blood of Asahel his brother,
  • 2 Sam 20:9-9 : 9 And Ioab saide to Amasa: Art thou in health my brother? And Ioab toke Amasa by ye beard with the right hand, to kisse him. 10 But Amasa toke no heede to the sword that was in Ioabs hand: for therewith he smote him in the fyst rybbe & shed out his bowels to the grounde, and thrust at him no more, & he dyed: So Ioab and Abisai his brother folowed after Seba the sonne of Bichri.
  • Ps 64:8 : 8 Yea they shall cause their owne tongues to be a meanes for to destroy the selues: insomuch that who so seeth them, shal desire to flee away from them
  • Jer 9:5 : 5 Yea, one dissembleth with another, and they deale with no trueth: They haue practised their tongues to lye, and taken great paynes to do mischiefe.
  • Matt 26:48-49 : 48 But he that betrayed him, gaue them a token, saying: Whomsoeuer I kysse, that same is he, holde hym fast. 49 And foorthwith, he came to Iesus, and sayde, hayle maister: and kyssed hym.