Job 20:12

KJV1611 – Modern English

Though wickedness is sweet in his mouth, though he hides it under his tongue,

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  • Job 15:16 : 16 How much more abominable and filthy is man, who drinks 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 to him; as he did not delight in blessing, so let it be far from him. 18 As he clothed himself with cursing as with a 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 does not know that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the depths of hell.
  • Prov 20:17 : 17 Bread gained by deceit is sweet to a man, but afterward his mouth shall be filled with gravel.
  • Eccl 11:9 : 9 Rejoice, O young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth; walk in the ways of your heart, and in the sight of your eyes — but know that for all these things God will bring you 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 desirable to make one wise, she took of the fruit and ate, and gave also to her husband with her; and he ate.

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    13Though he spares it and does not forsake it, but keeps it still within his mouth,

    14Yet his food in his stomach is turned, it is the venom of asps within him.

    15He has 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 flatters himself in his own eyes, until his iniquity is found to be hateful.

    3The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: he has ceased to be wise, and to do good.

    4He devises mischief upon his bed; he sets himself in a way that is not good; he does not abhor evil.

  • Prov 20:17
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    17Bread gained by deceit is sweet to a man, but afterward his mouth shall be filled with gravel.

  • Ps 50:19
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    19You give your mouth to evil, and your tongue frames deceit.

  • Rom 3:13-14
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    13'Their throat is an open grave; with their tongues they have practiced deceit; the poison of vipers is under their lips.'

    14'Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.'

  • Ps 34:13
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    13Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking deceit.

  • Job 6:30
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    30Is there iniquity in my tongue? Cannot my palate discern perverse things?

  • Prov 26:26
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    26Though his hatred is concealed by deceit, his wickedness shall be exposed before the assembly.

  • Prov 26:24
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    24He who hates others disguises it with his lips, and stores up deceit within him;

  • Ps 5:9
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    9For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is pure wickedness; their throat is an open grave; 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 plot against the just and gnash at him with their teeth.

  • Job 15:5
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    5For your mouth declares your iniquity, and you choose the tongue of the crafty.

  • Prov 17:20
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    20He who has a perverse heart finds no good, and he who has a deceitful tongue falls into trouble.

  • Prov 17:4
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    4A wicked doer listens to false lips, and a liar gives ear to a deceitful tongue.

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

  • Prov 16:30
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    30He shuts his eyes to devise perverse things; moving his lips, he brings evil to pass.

  • Prov 23:8
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    8The morsel which you have eaten, you shall vomit up, and lose your sweet words.

  • Prov 22:18
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    18For it is a pleasant thing if you keep them within you; they shall all be ready on your lips.

  • Ps 52:4
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    4You love all devouring words, O deceitful tongue.

  • Prov 24:13
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    13My son, eat honey because it is good, and the honeycomb, which is sweet to your taste.

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

  • Ps 59:12
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    12For the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips, let them even be taken in their pride, and for the cursing and lying which they speak.

  • Prov 10:32
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    32The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable, but the mouth of the wicked speaks perversity.

  • Ps 55:21
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    21The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart; his words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords.

  • Prov 16:27
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    27An ungodly man digs up evil, and in his lips there is like a burning fire.

  • 1 Pet 3:10
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    10For he who would love life and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips from speaking deceit.

  • Prov 24:2
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    2For their hearts plot destruction, and their lips talk of mischief.

  • Prov 10:18
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    18He who hides hatred with lying lips, and he who utters slander, is a fool.

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    2A man shall eat well by the fruit of his mouth, but the soul of the transgressors shall eat violence.

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    7For my mouth will speak truth; wickedness is an abomination to my lips.

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    20Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly, he shall not save anything of what he desired.

  • Job 20:26
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    26Total darkness is reserved for his treasures; a fire not blown shall consume him; it shall go ill with the one who remains in his tent.

  • Prov 30:20
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    20Such is the way of an adulterous woman; she eats and wipes her mouth and says, I have done no wrong.

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    12A worthless person, a wicked man, walks with a perverse mouth.

  • Prov 26:28
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    28A lying tongue hates those it hurts, and a flattering mouth works ruin.

  • Prov 12:22
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    22Lying lips are an abomination to the LORD, but those who deal truthfully are His delight.

  • Prov 27:7
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    7The full soul loathes honeycomb, but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.

  • Prov 12:12
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    12The wicked desires the catch of evil men, but the root of the righteous yields fruit.

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

  • Job 24:20
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    20The womb shall forget him; the worm shall feed sweetly on him; he shall be remembered no more; and wickedness shall be broken like a tree.

  • Prov 12:20
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    20Deceit is in the heart of those who imagine evil, but to the counselors of peace there is joy.