Psalms 17:10

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

They are inclosed in their own fat: With their mouth they speak proudly.

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Formal EquivalenceSource: American Standard VersionBest for: Word studies and original-language research

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A highly literal, word-for-word translation (ASV, 1901) augmented with Strong's numbering to connect English words to underlying Hebrew and Greek terms for study.

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Integrated Strong's numbering: Links English terms to underlying Hebrew and Greek words for deeper lexical study.
Formal equivalence: Prioritizes close alignment with source-language forms and structures.
Divine name rendering: Frequently renders the Tetragrammaton as Jehovah in the Old Testament, following ASV tradition.
Study-focused formatting: Optimized for reference and research rather than casual reading.

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Consistent lexical choices aid exegesis
Stable, longstanding scholarly text

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Archaic language reduces readability
Older textual basis compared to some modern translations
Strong's numbers are a concordance index, not full lexical definitions

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Referenced Verses

1 Sam 2:3 : 3 Talk no more so exceeding proudly; Let not arrogancy come out of your mouth; For Jehovah is a God of knowledge, And by him actions are weighed.
Ps 31:18 : 18 Let the lying lips be dumb, Which speak against the righteous insolently, With pride and contempt.
Job 15:27 : 27 Because he hath covered his face with his fatness, And gathered fat upon his loins;
Ps 119:70 : 70 Their heart is as fat as grease; But I delight in thy law.
Ps 123:4 : 4 Our soul is exceedingly filled With the scoffing of those that are at ease, And with the contempt of the proud.
Isa 6:10 : 10 Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and turn again, and be healed.
Matt 13:15 : 15 For this people's heart is waxed gross, And their ears are dull of hearing, And their eyes they have closed; Lest haply they should perceive with their eyes, And hear with their ears, And understand with their heart, And should turn again, And I should heal them.
Acts 28:27 : 27 For this people's heart is waxed gross, And their ears are dull of hearing, And their eyes they have closed; Lest, haply they should perceive with their eyes, And hear with their ears, And understand with their heart, And should turn again, And I should heal them.
2 Pet 2:18 : 18 For, uttering great swelling [words] of vanity, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by lasciviousness, those who are just escaping from them that live in error;
Rev 13:5-6 : 5 and there was given to him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and there was given to him authority to continue forty and two months. 6 And he opened his mouth for blasphemies against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, [even] them that dwell in the heaven.
Ps 12:3-4 : 3 Jehovah will cut off all flattering lips, The tongue that speaketh great things; 4 Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; Our lips are our own: Who is lord over us?
Exod 5:2 : 2 And Pharaoh said, Who is Jehovah, that I should hearken unto his voice to let Israel go? I know not Jehovah, and moreover I will not let Israel go.
Exod 15:9 : 9 The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; My desire shall be satisfied upon them; I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.
Deut 32:15 : 15 But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: Thou art waxed fat, thou art grown thick, thou art become sleek; Then he forsook God who made him, And lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.
Ps 73:7-9 : 7 Their eyes stand out with fatness: They have more than heart could wish. 8 They scoff, and in wickedness utter oppression: They speak loftily. 9 They have set their mouth in the heavens, And their tongue walketh through the earth.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

Ps 73:6-9
4 verses
83%
6Therefore pride is as a chain about their neck; Violence covereth them as a garment.
7Their eyes stand out with fatness: They have more than heart could wish.
8They scoff, and in wickedness utter oppression: They speak loftily.
9They have set their mouth in the heavens, And their tongue walketh through the earth.
Ps 17:11-12
2 verses
82%
11They have now compassed us in our steps; They set their eyes to cast [us] down to the earth.
12He is like a lion that is greedy of his prey, And as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.
Ps 59:12
76%
12[ For] the sin of their mouth, [and] the words of their lips, Let them even be taken in their pride, And for cursing and lying which they speak.
Ps 17:9
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9From the wicked that oppress me, My deadly enemies, that compass me about.
Ps 10:2-3
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75%
2In the pride of the wicked the poor is hotly pursued; Let them be taken in the devices that they have conceived.
3For the wicked boasteth of his heart's desire, And the covetous renounceth, [yea], contemneth Jehovah.
Job 15:27
75%
27Because he hath covered his face with his fatness, And gathered fat upon his loins;
Ps 59:7
74%
7Behold, they belch out with their mouth; Swords are in their lips: For who, [say they], doth hear?
Ps 140:9
74%
9As for the head of those that compass me about, Let the mischief of their own lips cover them.
Ps 31:18
74%
18Let the lying lips be dumb, Which speak against the righteous insolently, With pride and contempt.
Job 16:10
74%
10They have gaped upon me with their mouth; They have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully: They gather themselves together against me.
Ps 12:2-4
3 verses
74%
2They speak falsehood every one with his neighbor: With flattering lip, and with a double heart, do they speak.
3Jehovah will cut off all flattering lips, The tongue that speaketh great things;
4Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; Our lips are our own: Who is lord over us?
Ps 5:9-10
2 verses
73%
9For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; Their inward part is very wickedness; Their throat is an open sepulchre; They flatter with their tongue.
10Hold them guilty, O God; Let them fall by their own counsels; Thrust them out in the multitude of their transgressions; For they have rebelled against thee.
Ps 10:7
73%
7His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and oppression: Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.
Ps 119:70
72%
70Their heart is as fat as grease; But I delight in thy law.
Ps 94:4
72%
4They prate, they speak arrogantly: All the workers of iniquity boast themselves.
Ps 140:5
72%
5The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; They have spread a net by the wayside; They have set gins for me. {H5542}
Rom 3:13-14
2 verses
72%
13Their throat is an open sepulchre; With their tongues they have used deceit: The poison of asps is under their lips:
14Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:
Ps 109:2
72%
2For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit have they opened against me: They have spoken unto me with a lying tongue.
Ps 22:13
72%
13They gape upon me with their mouth, [As] a ravening and a roaring lion.
Ps 135:17
72%
17They have ears, but they hear not; Neither is there any breath in their mouths.
Zeph 2:10
72%
10This shall they have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of Jehovah of hosts.
Ps 140:3
71%
3They have sharpened their tongue like a serpent; Adders' poison is under their lips. {H5542}
Prov 14:3
70%
3In the mouth of the foolish is a rod for [his] pride; But the lips of the wise shall preserve them.
Jer 5:28
70%
28They are waxed fat, they shine: yea, they overpass in deeds of wickedness; they plead not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.
Isa 3:9
70%
9The show of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have done evil unto themselves.
Ps 35:25
70%
25Let them not say in their heart, Aha, so would we have it: Let them not say, We have swallowed him up.
Ps 78:30
70%
30They were not estranged from that which they desired, Their food was yet in their mouths,
Ps 49:6
70%
6They that trust in their wealth, And boast themselves in the multitude of their riches;
Ps 64:5
70%
5They encourage themselves in an evil purpose; They commune of laying snares privily; They say, Who will see them?
Job 41:15
70%
15[ His] strong scales are [his] pride, Shut up together [as with] a close seal.
Hos 7:3
70%
3They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.
Job 17:4
70%
4For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: Therefore shalt thou not exalt [them].
Prov 1:18
70%
18And these lay wait for their own blood; They lurk privily for their own lives.
Prov 24:2
70%
2For their heart studieth oppression, And their lips talk of mischief.
Prov 28:25
70%
25He that is of a greedy spirit stirreth up strife; But he that putteth his trust in Jehovah shall be made fat.
Ps 35:20-21
2 verses
70%
20For they speak not peace; But they devise deceitful words against them that are quiet in the land.
21Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me; They said, Aha, aha, our eye hath seen it.
Job 15:35
70%
35They conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity, And their heart prepareth deceit.
Prov 1:31
70%
31Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, And be filled with their own devices.
Ps 10:10
69%
10He croucheth, he boweth down, And the helpless fall by his strong ones.
Mic 6:12
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12For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.