Verse 5

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

Referenced Verses

• Job 5:13 : 13 He taketh the wise in their craftinesse, and the counsel of the wicked is made foolish.
• Job 9:22-24 : 22 This is one point: therefore I said, Hee destroyeth the perfite and the wicked. 23 If the scourge should suddely slay, should God laugh at the punishment of the innocent? 24 The earth is giuen into the hand of ye wicked: he couereth the faces of the iudges therof: if not, where is he? or who is he?
• Job 12:6 : 6 The tabernacles of robbers doe prosper, and they are in safetie, that prouoke God, whome God hath enriched with his hand.
• Ps 50:19-20 : 19 Thou giuest thy mouth to euill, and with thy tongue thou forgest deceit. 20 Thou sittest, and speakest against thy brother, and slanderest thy mothers sonne.
• Ps 52:2-4 : 2 Thy tongue imagineth mischiefe, and is like a sharpe rasor, that cutteth deceitfully. 3 Thou doest loue euill more then good, and lies more then to speake the trueth. Selah. 4 Thou louest all wordes that may destroye, O deceitfull tongue!
• Ps 64:3 : 3 Which haue whette their tongue like a sword, and shot for their arrowes bitter wordes.
• Ps 120:2-3 : 2 Deliuer my soule, O Lord, from lying lippes, and from a deceitfull tongue. 3 What doeth thy deceitfull tongue bring vnto thee? or what doeth it auaile thee?
• Jer 9:3-5 : 3 And they bende their tongues like their bowes for lyes: but they haue no courage for the trueth vpon the earth: for they proceede from euill to worse, and they haue not knowen mee, sayth the Lord. 4 Let euery one take heede of his neighbour, and trust you not in any brother: for euery brother will vse deceite, and euery friend will deale deceitfully, 5 And euery one wil deceiue his friende, and wil not speake the trueth: for they haue taught their tongues to speake lies, and take great paynes to do wickedly.
• Jer 9:8 : 8 Their tongue is as an arow shot out, and speaketh deceite: one speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth, but in his heart hee layeth waite for him.
• Mark 7:21-22 : 21 For from within, euen out of the heart of men, proceede euill thoughtes, adulteries, fornications, murthers, 22 Theftes, couetousnes, wickednes, deceite, vncleannes, a wicked eye, backbiting, pride, foolishnesse.
• Luke 6:45 : 45 A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth foorth good, and an euill man out of the euill treasure of his heart bringeth foorth euill: for of the aboundance of the heart his mouth speaketh.
• Jas 1:26 : 26 If any man amog you seeme religious, and refraineth not his tongue, but deceiueth his owne heart, this mans religion is vaine.
• Jas 3:5-8 : 5 Euen so the tongue is a litle member, and boasteth of great things: beholde, howe great a thing a litle fire kindleth. 6 And the tongue is fire, yea, a worlde of wickednesse: so is the tongue set among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature, and it is set on fire of hell. 7 For the whole nature of beasts, & of birds, and of creeping things, and things of the sea is tamed, and hath bene tamed of the nature of man. 8 But the tongue can no man tame. It is an vnruly euill, full of deadly poyson.