Job 20:12

Geneva Bible (1560)

When wickednesse was sweete in his mouth, and he hid it vnder his tongue,

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  • Job 15:16 : 16 How much more is man abominable, and filthie, which drinketh iniquitie like water?
  • Ps 10:7 : 7 His mouth is full of cursing and deceite and fraude: vnder his tongue is mischiefe and iniquitie.
  • Ps 109:17-18 : 17 As he loued cursing, so shall it come vnto him, and as he loued not blessing, so shall it be farre from him. 18 As he clothed himselfe with cursing like a rayment, so shall it come into his bowels like water, and like oyle into his bones.
  • Prov 9:17-18 : 17 Stollen waters are sweete, and hid bread is pleasant. 18 But he knoweth not, that ye dead are there, and that her ghestes are in the depth of hell.
  • Prov 20:17 : 17 The bread of deceit is sweete to a man: but afterward his mouth shalbe filled with grauel.
  • Eccl 11:9 : 9 Reioyce, O yong man, in thy youth, and let thine heart cheere thee in the dayes of thy youth: and walke in the waies of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but knowe that for all these things, God wil bring thee to iudgement.
  • Gen 3:6 : 6 So the woman (seeing that the tree was good for meate, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to get knowledge) tooke of the fruite thereof, and did eate, & gaue also to her husband with her, and he did eate.

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  • Job 20:13-16
    4 verses
    86%

    13And fauoured it, and would not forsake it, but kept it close in his mouth,

    14Then his meat in his bowels was turned: the gall of Aspes was in the middes of him.

    15He hath deuoured substance, and hee shall vomit it: for God shall drawe it out of his bellie.

    16He shall sucke the gall of Aspes, and the vipers tongue shall slay him.

  • 7His mouth is full of cursing and deceite and fraude: vnder his tongue is mischiefe and iniquitie.

  • 11His bones are full of the sinne of his youth, and it shal lie downe with him in the dust.

  • Ps 36:2-4
    3 verses
    75%

    2For hee flattereth himselfe in his owne eyes, while his iniquitie is foud worthy to be hated.

    3The wordes of his mouth are iniquitie and deceit: hee hath left off to vnderstand and to doe good.

    4Hee imagineth mischiefe vpon his bed: he setteth himselfe vpon a way, that is not good, and doeth not abhorre euill.

  • 17The bread of deceit is sweete to a man: but afterward his mouth shalbe filled with grauel.

  • 19Thou giuest thy mouth to euill, and with thy tongue thou forgest deceit.

  • Rom 3:13-14
    2 verses
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    13Their throte is an open sepulchre: they haue vsed their tongues to deceit: the poyson of aspes is vnder their lippes.

    14Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitternesse.

  • 13Keepe thy tongue from euill, and thy lips, that they speake no guile.

  • 30Is there iniquitie in my tongue? doeth not my mouth feele sorowes?

  • 26Hatred may be couered by deceite: but the malice thereof shall be discouered in the congregation.

  • 24He that hateth, will counterfaite with his lips, but in his heart he layeth vp deceite.

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    9For no constancie is in their mouth: within, they are very corruption: their throte is an open sepulchre, and they flatter with their tongue.

  • 17Stollen waters are sweete, and hid bread is pleasant.

  • 12The wicked practiseth against the iust, and gnasheth his teeth against him.

  • 5For thy mouth declareth thine iniquitie, seeing thou hast chosen ye tongue of the crafty.

  • 20The froward heart findeth no good: and he that hath a naughtie tongue, shall fall into euill.

  • 4The wicked giueth heed to false lippes, and a lyer hearkeneth to the naughtie tongue.

  • 2Thy tongue imagineth mischiefe, and is like a sharpe rasor, that cutteth deceitfully.

  • 30He shutteth his eyes to deuise wickednes: he moueth his lippes, and bringeth euil to passe.

  • 8Thou shalt vomit thy morsels that thou hast eaten, and thou shalt lose thy sweete wordes.

  • 18For it shalbe pleasant, if thou keepe them in thy bellie, and if they be directed together in thy lippes.

  • 4Thou louest all wordes that may destroye, O deceitfull tongue!

  • 13My sonne, eate hony, for it is good, and the hony combe, for it is sweete vnto thy mouth.

  • 10The wicked shall see it and be angrie: he shall gnash with his teeth, and consume away: the desire of the wicked shall perish.

  • 12For the sinne of their mouth, and the words of their lips: and let them be taken in their pride, euen for their periurie and lies, that they speake.

  • 32The lips of the righteous knowe what is acceptable: but the mouth of the wicked speaketh froward things.

  • 21The wordes of his mouth were softer then butter, yet warre was in his heart: his words were more gentle then oyle, yet they were swordes.

  • 27A wicked man diggeth vp euill, and in his lippes is like burning fire.

  • 10For if any man long after life, and to see good dayes, let him refraine his tongue from euill, and his lippes that they speake no guile.

  • 2For their heart imagineth destruction, and their lippes speake mischiefe.

  • 18He that dissembleth hatred with lying lips, and he that inuenteth slaunder, is a foole.

  • 2A man shall eate good things by the fruite of his mouth: but the soule of the trespassers shall suffer violence.

  • 7For my mouth shall speake the trueth, and my lippes abhorre wickednesse.

  • 20Surely he shall feele no quietnes in his bodie, neither shall he reserue of that which he desired.

  • 26All darkenes shalbe hid in his secret places: the fire that is not blowen, shall deuoure him, and that which remaineth in his tabernacle, shalbe destroyed.

  • 20Such is ye way also of an adulterous woman: she eateth and wipeth her mouth, and sayth, I haue not committed iniquitie.

  • 12The vnthriftie man and the wicked man walketh with a froward mouth.

  • 28A false tongue hateth the afflicted, and a flattering mouth causeth ruine.

  • 22The lying lips are an abomination to the Lord: but they that deale truely are his delite.

  • 7The person that is full, despiseth an hony combe: but vnto the hungry soule euery bitter thing is sweete.

  • 12The wicked desireth the net of euils: but the roote of the righteous giueth fruite.

  • 20The tongue of the iust man is as fined siluer: but the heart of the wicked is litle worth.

  • 20The pitifull man shall forget him: the worme shal feele his sweetenes: he shalbe no more remebred, & the wicked shalbe broke like a tree.

  • 20Deceite is in the heart of them that imagine euill: but to the counsellers of peace shall be ioye.