Job 20:12

Authorized King James Version (1611)

Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, [though] he hide it under his tongue;

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  • Job 15:16 : 16 How much more abominable and filthy [is] man, which drinketh iniquity like water?
  • Ps 10:7 : 7 His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue [is] mischief and vanity.
  • Ps 109:17-18 : 17 As he loved cursing, so let it come unto him: as he delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from him. 18 As he clothed himself with cursing like as with his garment, so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones.
  • Prov 9:17-18 : 17 Stolen waters are sweet, and bread [eaten] in secret is pleasant. 18 But he knoweth not that the dead [are] there; [and that] her guests [are] in the depths of hell.
  • Prov 20:17 : 17 ¶ Bread of deceit [is] sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.
  • Eccl 11:9 : 9 Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these [things] God will bring thee into judgment.
  • Gen 3:6 : 6 ¶ And when the woman saw that the tree [was] good for food, and that it [was] pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make [one] wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.

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    13[Though] he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth:

    14[Yet] his meat in his bowels is turned, [it is] the gall of asps within him.

    15He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly.

    16He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay him.

  • Ps 10:7
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    7His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue [is] mischief and vanity.

  • Job 20:11
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    11His bones are full [of the sin] of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust.

  • Ps 36:2-4
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    2For he flattereth himself in his own eyes, until his iniquity be found to be hateful.

    3The words of his mouth [are] iniquity and deceit: he hath left off to be wise, [and] to do good.

    4He deviseth mischief upon his bed; he setteth himself in a way [that is] not good; he abhorreth not evil.

  • Prov 20:17
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    17¶ Bread of deceit [is] sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.

  • Ps 50:19
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    19Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit.

  • Rom 3:13-14
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    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 34:13
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    13Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.

  • Job 6:30
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    30Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse things?

  • Prov 26:26
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    26[Whose] hatred is covered by deceit, his wickedness shall be shewed before the [whole] congregation.

  • Prov 26:24
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    24¶ He that hateth dissembleth with his lips, and layeth up deceit within him;

  • Ps 5:9
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    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.

  • Prov 9:17
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    17Stolen waters are sweet, and bread [eaten] in secret is pleasant.

  • Ps 37:12
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    12The wicked plotteth against the just, and gnasheth upon him with his teeth.

  • Job 15:5
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    5For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.

  • Prov 17:20
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    20¶ He that hath a froward heart findeth no good: and he that hath a perverse tongue falleth into mischief.

  • Prov 17:4
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    4¶ A wicked doer giveth heed to false lips; [and] a liar giveth ear to a naughty tongue.

  • Ps 52:2
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    2Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

  • Prov 16:30
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    30He shutteth his eyes to devise froward things: moving his lips he bringeth evil to pass.

  • Prov 23:8
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    8The morsel [which] thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, and lose thy sweet words.

  • Prov 22:18
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    18For [it is] a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee; they shall withal be fitted in thy lips.

  • Ps 52:4
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    4Thou lovest all devouring words, O [thou] deceitful tongue.

  • Prov 24:13
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    13¶ My son, eat thou honey, because [it is] good; and the honeycomb, [which is] sweet to thy taste:

  • Ps 112:10
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    10The wicked shall see [it], and be grieved; he shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away: the desire of the wicked shall perish.

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    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.

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    32The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable: but the mouth of the wicked [speaketh] frowardness.

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    21[The words] of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war [was] in his heart: his words were softer than oil, yet [were] they drawn swords.

  • Prov 16:27
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    27¶ An ungodly man diggeth up evil: and in his lips [there is] as a burning fire.

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    10For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile:

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    2For their heart studieth destruction, and their lips talk of mischief.

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    18¶ He that hideth hatred [with] lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander, [is] a fool.

  • Prov 13:2
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    2¶ A man shall eat good by the fruit of [his] mouth: but the soul of the transgressors [shall eat] violence.

  • Prov 8:7
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    7For my mouth shall speak truth; and wickedness [is] an abomination to my lips.

  • Job 20:20
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    20Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly, he shall not save of that which he desired.

  • Job 20:26
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    26All darkness [shall be] hid in his secret places: a fire not blown shall consume him; it shall go ill with him that is left in his tabernacle.

  • Prov 30:20
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    20Such [is] the way of an adulterous woman; she eateth, and wipeth her mouth, and saith, I have done no wickedness.

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    12¶ A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth.

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    28¶ A lying tongue hateth [those that are] afflicted by it; and a flattering mouth worketh ruin.

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    22¶ Lying lips [are] abomination to the LORD: but they that deal truly [are] his delight.

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    7¶ The full soul loatheth an honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.

  • Prov 12:12
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    12¶ The wicked desireth the net of evil [men]: but the root of the righteous yieldeth [fruit].

  • Prov 10:20
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    20¶ The tongue of the just [is as] choice silver: the heart of the wicked [is] little worth.

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    20The womb shall forget him; the worm shall feed sweetly on him; he shall be no more remembered; and wickedness shall be broken as a tree.

  • Prov 12:20
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    20¶ Deceit [is] in the heart of them that imagine evil: but to the counsellors of peace [is] joy.