Proverbs 11:9

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

With the mouth a hypocrite corrupteth his friend, And by knowledge the righteous are drawn out.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

בְּפֶ֗ה חָ֭נֵף יַשְׁחִ֣ת רֵעֵ֑הוּ וּ֝בְדַ֗עַת צַדִּיקִ֥ים יֵחָלֵֽצוּ׃

Transliteration

Bəpeh ḥānēp yašḥit rēʿēhû ûbədaʿat ṣaddîqîm yēḥālēṣû.

Grammar Details

• *Bəpeh*: preposition + masculine singular noun - with mouth
• *ḥānēp*: masculine singular adjective/noun - godless/profane one
• *yašḥit*: verb Hiphil imperfect 3rd masculine singular - destroys
• *rēʿēhû*: masculine singular noun with 3rd masculine singular suffix - his neighbor
• *ûbədaʿat*: conjunction + preposition + feminine singular construct noun - and by knowledge of
• *ṣaddîqîm*: masculine plural adjective/noun - righteous ones
• *yēḥālēṣû*: verb Niphal imperfect 3rd masculine plural - they are delivered

Word Meanings

• *peh*: mouth/opening/speech
• *ḥānēp*: godless/profane/hypocrite
• *yašḥit*: destroys/ruins/corrupts
• *rēʿēhû*: his neighbor/friend/companion
• *daʿat*: knowledge/understanding/wisdom
• *ṣaddîqîm*: righteous ones/just ones
• *yēḥālēṣû*: they are delivered/rescued/saved

Referenced Verses

• Prov 2:10-16 : 10 For wisdom cometh into thy heart, And knowledge to thy soul is pleasant, 11 Thoughtfulness doth watch over thee, Understanding doth keep thee, 12 To deliver thee from an evil way, From any speaking froward things, 13 Who are forsaking paths of uprightness, To walk in ways of darkness, 14 Who are rejoicing to do evil, They delight in frowardness of the wicked, 15 Whose paths `are' crooked, Yea, they are perverted in their ways. 16 To deliver thee from the strange woman, From the stranger who hath made smooth her sayings,
• 1 Kgs 13:18-22 : 18 And he saith to him, `I also `am' a prophet like thee, and a messenger spake unto me by the word of Jehovah, saying, Bring him back with thee unto thy house, and he doth eat bread and drink water;' -- he hath lied to him. 19 And he turneth back with him, and eateth bread in his house, and drinketh water. 20 And it cometh to pass -- they are sitting at the table -- and a word of Jehovah is unto the prophet who brought him back, 21 and he calleth unto the man of God who came from Judah, saying, `Thus said Jehovah, Because that thou hast provoked the mouth of Jehovah, and hast not kept the command that Jehovah thy God charged thee, 22 and turnest back and dost eat bread and drink water in the place of which He said unto thee, Thou dost not eat bread nor drink water -- thy carcase cometh not in unto the burying-place of thy fathers.'
• 1 Kgs 22:20-23 : 20 and Jehovah saith, Who doth entice Ahab, and he doth go up and fall in Ramoth-Gilead? and this one saith thus, and that one is saying thus. 21 `And the spirit goeth out, and standeth before Jehovah, and saith, I -- I do entice him; and Jehovah saith unto him, By what? 22 and he saith, I go out, and have been a spirit of falsehood in the mouth of all his prophets; and He saith, Thou dost entice, and also thou art able; go out and do so. 23 And now, lo, Jehovah hath put a spirit of falsehood in the mouth of all these thy prophets, and Jehovah hath spoken concerning thee -- evil.'
• Ps 55:12 : 12 For an enemy reproacheth me not, or I bear `it', He who is hating me Hath not magnified himself against me, Or I hide from him.
• Ps 55:20-21 : 20 He hath sent forth his hands against his well-wishers, He hath polluted his covenant. 21 Sweeter than honey hath been his mouth, And his heart `is' war! Softer have been his words than oil, And they `are' drawn `swords'.
• Job 8:13 : 13 So `are' the paths of all forgetting God, And the hope of the profane doth perish,
• Job 34:30 : 30 From the reigning of a profane man, From the snares of a people;
• 1 Kgs 22:6 : 6 and the king of Israel gathereth the prophets, about four hundred men, and saith unto them, `Do I go against Ramoth-Gilead to battle, or do I forbear?' and they say, `Go up, and the Lord doth give `it' into the hand of the king.'
• Prov 4:5-6 : 5 Get wisdom, get understanding, Do not forget, nor turn away From the sayings of my mouth. 6 Forsake her not, and she doth preserve thee, Love her, and she doth keep thee.
• Prov 6:23-24 : 23 For a lamp `is' the command, And the law a light, And a way of life `are' reproofs of instruction, 24 To preserve thee from an evil woman, From the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.
• Matt 7:15 : 15 `But, take heed of the false prophets, who come unto you in sheep's clothing, and inwardly are ravening wolves.
• Matt 15:5-9 : 5 but ye say, Whoever may say to father or mother, An offering `is' whatever thou mayest be profited by me; -- 6 and he may not honour his father or his mother, and ye did set aside the command of God because of your tradition. 7 `Hypocrites, well did Isaiah prophesy of you, saying, 8 This people doth draw nigh to Me with their mouth, and with the lips it doth honour Me, but their heart is far off from Me; 9 and in vain do they worship Me, teaching teachings -- commands of men.' 10 And having called near the multitude, he said to them, `Hear and understand: 11 not that which is coming into the mouth doth defile the man, but that which is coming forth from the mouth, this defileth the man.' 12 Then his disciples having come near, said to him, `Hast thou known that the Pharisees, having heard the word, were stumbled?' 13 And he answering said, `Every plant that my heavenly Father did not plant shall be rooted up; 14 let them alone, guides they are -- blind of blind; and if blind may guide blind, both into a ditch shall fall.'
• Mark 13:14 : 14 `And when ye may see the abomination of the desolation, that was spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not, (whoever is reading let him understand), then those in Judea, let them flee to the mountains;
• Mark 13:22-23 : 22 for there shall rise false Christs and false prophets, and they shall give signs and wonders, to seduce, if possible, also the chosen; 23 and ye, take heed; lo, I have foretold you all things.
• Acts 20:30 : 30 and of your own selves there shall arise men, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.
• 2 Cor 11:13-15 : 13 for those such `are' false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ, 14 and no wonder -- for even the Adversary doth transform himself into a messenger of light; 15 no great thing, then, if also his ministrants do transform themselves as ministrants of righteousness -- whose end shall be according to their works.
• Eph 4:13-14 : 13 till we may all come to the unity of the faith and of the recognition of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to a measure of stature of the fulness of the Christ, 14 that we may no more be babes, tossed and borne about by every wind of the teaching, in the sleight of men, in craftiness, unto the artifice of leading astray,
• 2 Thess 2:8-9 : 8 and then shall be revealed the Lawless One, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the manifestation of his presence, 9 `him,' whose presence is according to the working of the Adversary, in all power, and signs, and lying wonders, 10 and in all deceitfulness of the unrighteousness in those perishing, because the love of the truth they did not receive for their being saved,
• 1 Tim 4:1-3 : 1 And the Spirit expressly speaketh, that in latter times shall certain fall away from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and teachings of demons, 2 in hypocrisy speaking lies, being seared in their own conscience, 3 forbidding to marry -- to abstain from meats that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those believing and acknowledging the truth,
• 2 Pet 2:1-3 : 1 And there did come also false prophets among the people, as also among you there shall be false teachers, who shall bring in besides destructive sects, and the Master who bought them denying, bringing to themselves quick destruction, 2 and many shall follow out their destructive ways, because of whom the way of the truth shall be evil spoken of, 3 and in covetousness, with moulded words, of you they shall make merchandise, whose judgment of old is not idle, and their destruction doth not slumber.
• 2 Pet 3:16-18 : 16 as also in all the epistles, speaking in them concerning these things, among which things are certain hard to be understood, which the untaught and unstable do wrest, as also the other Writings, unto their own destruction. 17 Ye, then, beloved, knowing before, take heed, lest, together with the error of the impious being led away, ye may fall from your own stedfastness, 18 and increase ye in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ; to him `is' the glory both now, and to the day of the age! Amen.
• 1 John 2:21 : 21 I did not write to you because ye have not known the truth, but because ye have known it, and because no lie is of the truth.
• 1 John 2:27 : 27 and you, the anointing that ye did receive from him, in you it doth remain, and ye have no need that any one may teach you, but as the same anointing doth teach you concerning all, and is true, and is not a lie, and even as was taught you, ye shall remain in him.