Job 20:12

World English Bible (2000)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 15:16 : 16 how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks iniquity like water!
  • Ps 10:7 : 7 His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and oppression. Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.
  • Ps 109:17-18 : 17 Yes, he loved cursing, and it came to him. He didn't delight in blessing, and it was far from him. 18 He clothed himself also with cursing as with his garment. It came into his inward parts like water, like oil into his bones.
  • Prov 9:17-18 : 17 "Stolen water is sweet. Food eaten in secret is pleasant." 18 But he doesn't know that the dead are there, that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.
  • Prov 20:17 : 17 Fraudulent food is sweet to a man, but afterwards his mouth is filled with gravel.
  • Eccl 11:9 : 9 Rejoice, young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth, and 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 When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit, and ate; and she gave some to her husband with her, and he ate.

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  • Job 20:13-16
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    13 though he spare it, and will not let it go, but keep it still within his mouth;

    14 yet his food in his bowels is turned. It is cobra venom within him.

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

    16 He shall suck cobra venom. The viper's tongue shall kill him.

  • Ps 10:7
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    7 His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and oppression. Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.

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

  • Ps 36:2-4
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    2 For he flatters himself in his own eyes, too much to detect and hate his sin.

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

    4 He plots iniquity on his bed. He sets himself in a way that is not good. He doesn't abhor evil.

  • Prov 20:17
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    17 Fraudulent food is sweet to a man, but afterwards his mouth is filled with gravel.

  • Ps 50:19
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    19 "You give your mouth to evil. Your tongue frames deceit.

  • Rom 3:13-14
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    13 "Their throat is an open tomb. With their tongues they have used 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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    13 Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking lies.

  • Job 6:30
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    30 Is there injustice on my tongue? Can't my taste discern mischievous things?

  • Prov 26:26
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    26 His malice may be concealed by deception, but his wickedness will be exposed in the assembly.

  • Prov 26:24
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    24 A malicious man disguises himself with his lips, but he harbors evil in his heart.

  • Ps 5:9
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    9 For there is no faithfulness in their mouth. Their heart is destruction. Their throat is an open tomb. They flatter with their tongue.

  • Prov 9:17
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    17 "Stolen water is sweet. Food eaten in secret is pleasant."

  • Ps 37:12
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    12 The wicked plots against the just, and gnashes at him with his teeth.

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

  • Prov 17:20
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    20 One who has a perverse heart doesn't find prosperity, and one who has a deceitful tongue falls into trouble.

  • Prov 17:4
    72%

    4 An evildoer heeds wicked lips. A liar gives ear to a mischievous tongue.

  • Ps 52:2
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    2 Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

  • Prov 16:30
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    30 One who winks his eyes to plot perversities, one who compresses his lips, is bent on evil.

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

  • Prov 22:18
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    18 For it is a pleasant thing if you keep them within you, if all of them are ready on your lips.

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

  • Prov 24:13
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    13 My son, eat honey, for it is good; the droppings of the honeycomb, which are sweet to your taste:

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

  • Ps 59:12
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    12 For the sin of their mouth, and the words of their lips, let them be caught in their pride, for the curses and lies which they utter.

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

  • Ps 55:21
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    21 His mouth was smooth as butter, but his heart was war. His words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords.

  • Prov 16:27
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    27 A worthless man devises mischief. His speech is like a scorching fire.

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

  • Prov 24:2
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    2 for their hearts plot violence, and their lips talk about mischief.

  • Prov 10:18
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    18 He who hides hatred has lying lips. He who utters a slander is a fool.

  • Prov 13:2
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    2 By the fruit of his lips, a man enjoys good things; but the unfaithful crave violence.

  • Prov 8:7
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    7 For my mouth speaks truth. Wickedness is an abomination to my lips.

  • Job 20:20
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    20 "Because he knew no quietness within him, he shall not save anything of that in which he delights.

  • Job 20:26
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    26 All darkness is laid up for his treasures. An unfanned fire shall devour him. It shall consume that which is left in his tent.

  • Prov 30:20
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    20 "So is the way of an adulterous woman: she eats and wipes her mouth, and says, 'I have done nothing wrong.'

  • Prov 6:12
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    12 A worthless person, a man of iniquity, is he who walks with a perverse mouth;

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

  • Prov 12:22
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    22 Lying lips are an abomination to Yahweh, but those who do the truth are his delight.

  • Prov 27:7
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    7 A full soul loathes a honeycomb; but to a hungry soul, every bitter thing is sweet.

  • Prov 12:12
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    12 The wicked desires the plunder of evil men, but the root of the righteous flourishes.

  • Prov 10:20
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    20 The tongue of the righteous is like choice silver. The heart of the wicked is of little worth.

  • Job 24:20
    69%

    20 The womb shall forget him. The worm shall feed sweetly on him. He shall be no more remembered. Unrighteousness shall be broken as a tree.

  • Prov 12:20
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    20 Deceit is in the heart of those who plot evil, but joy comes to the promoters of peace.