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• EVIL Jude 1:8-10Exodus 22:28Job 19:18Psalms 10:7Psalms 10:8Psalms 12:3Psalms 12:4Psalms 34:13Psalms 35:21Psalms 41:5–9Psalms 52:2–4Psalms 59:12Psalms 64:2–5Psalms 69:12Psalms 69:26Psalms 70:3Psalms 102:8Psalms 106:33Psalms 119:23Psalms 120:1–7Psalms 140:3
• See Accusation, False
• See Blasphemy
• See Busybody
• See Falsehood
• See Flattery
• See Slander
• See Talebearer
• See Uncharitablness
• FOLLY INJob 13:5Job 16:3Job 16:4Job 38:2Proverbs 10:14Proverbs 12:23Proverbs 13:3Proverbs 14:3Proverbs 15:2Proverbs 15:7Proverbs 15:14Proverbs 18:6Proverbs 18:7Proverbs 18:13Proverbs 26:4Proverbs 26:7Proverbs 26:9Proverbs 29:11Proverbs 29:20Proverbs 30:10
• See Fool
• WISDOM INJob 16:5Job 27:4Psalms 15:1–3Psalms 37:30Psalms 39:1Psalms 50:23Psalms 77:12Psalms 119:13Psalms 119:27Psalms 119:54Psalms 119:172Psalms 141:3Psalms 145:5–7Psalms 145:11Psalms 145:12Proverbs 10:11Proverbs 10:13Proverbs 10:19–21Proverbs 10:31Proverbs 10:32

The passages, in Bible order (167)

The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 16 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.

1. Exodus 22:28

   You must not blaspheme God or curse the ruler of your people.

   ›Commentary on Exodus 22:281 voice

   “Thou shalt not revile the gods - Most commentators believe that the word gods here means magistrates. The original is אלהים Elohim, and should be understood of the true God only: Thou shalt not blaspheme or make light of [תקלל tekallel] God, the fountain of justice and power, nor curse the ruler of thy people, who derives his authority from God. We shall ever find that he who despises a good civil government, and is disaffected to that under which he lives, is one who has little fear of God before his eyes.

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2. Job 13:5

   If only you would remain silent; for that would be your wisdom!

   ›Commentary on Job 13:51 voice

   Oh that ye would altogether hold your peace! - You would show your wisdom by silence. Since you can say nothing that is adapted to give comfort, or to explain the true state of the case, it would be wise to say nothing; compare Pro 17:28: “Even a fool when he holdeth his peace is counted wise.”

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3. Job 16:3

   Is there no end to your long-winded speeches? What provokes you to continue testifying?

   ›Commentary on Job 16:31 voice

   “Shall vain words? - Margin, As in Hebrew words of wind; that is, words which were devoid of thought-light, trifling. This is a retort on Eliphaz. He had charged Job Job 15:2-3 with uttering only such words. Such forms of expression are common in the East. “His promise, it is only wind.” “Breath, breath: all breath.” Roberts. Or what emboldeneth thee? - “What provokes or irritates thee, that thou dost answer in this manner?

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4. Job 16:4

   I could also speak like you if you were in my place; I could heap up words against you and shake my head at you.

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5. Job 16:5

   But I would encourage you with my mouth, and the consolation of my lips would bring relief.

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6. Job 19:18

   Even little boys scorn me; when I appear, they deride me.

   ›Commentary on Job 19:182 voices

   “The foolish too despised me. The wise falling away from faith in the truth, there is an addition rightly made concerning 'fools' as well; in that when the Pharisees and the Lawyers despised the Lord, the rabble of the people too followed the example of their incredulousness, which herein, that it saw Him a man, slighted the announcements of the Redeemer of the world.

   “Yea, young children - Margin, or “the wicked.” This difference between the text and the margin arises from the ambiguity of the original word - עוילים ‛ăvı̂ylı̂ym. The word עויל ‛ăvı̂yl (whence our word “evil”) means sometimes the wicked, or the ungodly, as in Job 16:11. It may also mean a child, or suckling, (from עוּל ‛ûl - to give milk, to suckle, 1Sa 7:7-10; Gen 22:13: Ps. 77:71; Isa 40:11; compare Isa 49:15; Isa 65:20,) and is doubtless used in this sense here.

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7. Job 27:4

   my lips will not speak wickedness, and my tongue will not utter deceit.

   ›Commentary on Job 27:41 voice

   “All the while my breath is in me, and the Spirit of God is in my nostrils, my lips shall not speak iniquity, nor my tongue meditate falsehood. What he first calls 'iniquity,' this repeating afterwards he calls 'falsehood.' For both all 'falsehood' is 'iniquity,' and all 'iniquity' 'falsehood,' because, whatever thing is at variance with truth is surely at odds with equity. But between this which he expresses, 'to speak' and that which he adds afterwards, to 'meditate,' there is a wide difference. For sometimes it is a worse thing to 'meditate' falsehood than to speak it.

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8. Job 38:2

   “Who is this who obscures My counsel by words without knowledge?

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   “Who is this that involves sentences in unskilful words? As we have said also in the former part, an interrogative of this kind, in which it is said, Who is this? is the beginning of a reproof. For Eliu had spoken arrogantly. And we say not, Who is this, excepting expressly of him whom we know not. But knowledge on God's part is approval; His not knowing is rejection.

   “Who is this,.... Meaning not Elihu the last speaker, as some think; and there are some who suppose not only that these words are directed to him, but all that is said in this and the following chapter: but it was Job the Lord spoke to and answered, as expressed in Job 38:1; and these words are taken by Job to himself, Job 42:

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9. Psalms 10:7

   His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and violence; trouble and malice are under his tongue.

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   “Let us now hear the witnesses in court. Let the wretch speak for himself, for out of his own mouth he will be condemned. "His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud." There is not only a little evil there, but his mouth is full of it. A three-headed serpent hath stowed away its coils and venom within the den of its black mouth. There is cursing which he spits against both God and men, deceit with which he entraps the unwary, and fraud by which, even in his common dealings, he robs his neighbours.

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10. Psalms 10:8

    He lies in wait near the villages; in ambush he slays the innocent; his eyes watch in stealth for the helpless.

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    “Despite the bragging of this base wretch, it seems that he is as cowardly as he is cruel. "He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor." He acts the part of the highwayman, who springs upon the unsuspecting traveller in some desolate part of the road. There are always bad men lying in wait for the saints. This is a land of robbers and thieves; let us travel well armed, for every bush conceals an enemy.

    “And lastly, against the devil: 'God is not before his eyes, he sits in ambush with the rich.' Unhappy the rich, with whom the devil sits.

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11. Psalms 12:3

    May the LORD cut off all flattering lips and every boastful tongue.

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    Total destruction shall overwhelm the lovers of flattery and pride, but meanwhile how they hector and fume! Well did the apostle call them "raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame." Free-thinkers are generally very free-talkers, and they are never more at ease than when railing at God's dominion, and arrogating to themselves unbounded license. Strange is it that the easy yoke of the Lord should so gall the shoulders of the proud, while the iron bands of Satan they bind about themselves as chains of honour: they boastfully cry unto God, "Who is lord over us?"

    “When the Lord wipes out those things that are base, he will destroy those very things, so that when those things that have come on a person unexpectedly have been destroyed, the foremost creation of God whom the baser things had overtaken may take up the higher things.

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12. Psalms 12:4

    They say, “With our tongues we will prevail. We own our lips—who can be our master?”

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    Total destruction shall overwhelm the lovers of flattery and pride, but meanwhile how they hector and fume! Well did the apostle call them "raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame." Free-thinkers are generally very free-talkers, and they are never more at ease than when railing at God's dominion, and arrogating to themselves unbounded license. Strange is it that the easy yoke of the Lord should so gall the shoulders of the proud, while the iron bands of Satan they bind about themselves as chains of honour: they boastfully cry unto God, "Who is lord over us?"

    “With mouths agape they heedlessly utter whatever occurs to them, scornful of divine long-suffering and giving no thought to their falling under the lordship of God.

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13. Psalms 15:1–3

    O LORD, who may abide in Your tent? Who may dwell on Your holy mountain?

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    “The question. Jehovah. Thou high and holy One, who shall be permitted to have fellowship with thee? The heavens are not pure in thy sight, and thou chargest thine angels with folly, who then of mortal mould shall dwell with thee, thou dread consuming fire? A sense of the glory of the Lord and of the holiness which becomes his house, his service, and his attendants, excites the humble mind to ask the solemn question before us. Where angels bow with veiled faces, how shall man be able to worship at all?

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14. Psalms 34:13

    Keep your tongue from evil and your lips from deceitful speech.

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    “Keep thy tongue from evil. Guard with careful diligence that dangerous member, the tongue, lest it utter evil, for that evil will recoil upon thee, and mar the enjoyment of thy life. Men cannot spit forth poison without feeling some of the venom burning their own flesh. And thy lips from speaking guile. Deceit must be very earnestly avoided by the man who desires happiness. A crafty schemer lives like a spy in the enemy's camp, in constant fear of exposure and execution.

    “If … anger has got the start, and has already taken possession of your mind and mounted into your heart, forsake not your ground. Your ground is patience, it is wisdom, it is reason, it is the allaying of indignation. And if the stubbornness of your opponent rouses you and his perverseness drives you to indignation: if you cannot calm your mind, check at least your tongue. For so it is written: "Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips that they speak no guile. Seek peace and pursue it." … First, then, calm your mind.

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15. Psalms 35:21

    They gape at me and say, “Aha, aha! Our eyes have seen!”

    ›Commentary on Psalms 35:212 voices

    “Jerome has, "in the plunder of the earth, mocking words." He who mocks someone does two things: because such words distress the one mocked and gladden the mocker; and therefore he says, "they opened wide their mouth against me," as if boldly and gladly speaking …

    "Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me." As if they would swallow him. Uttering great lies which needed wide mouths. They set no bounds to their infamous charges, but poured out wholesale abuse, trusting that if all did not stick, some of it would. "And said, Aha, aha, our eye hath seen it." Glad to find out a fault or a misfortune, or to swear they had seen evil where there was none. Malice has but one eye; it is blind to all virtue in its enemy. Eyes can generally see what hearts wish.

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16. Psalms 37:30

    The mouth of the righteous man utters wisdom, and his tongue speaks justice.

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    “Let us speak the Lord Jesus, for he is wisdom. He is the Word, the very Word of God. Does not Scripture say, "Open your mouth to the word of God"? Echo his speech, meditate his words, and you will breathe Jesus. When we speak of wisdom, it is he.… When we speak of truth and life and redemption, it is he.

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