Job 33:3
My words are from an upright heart, and my lips speak sincerely what I know.
BSB
ASV
My words shall utter the uprightness of my heart; And that which my lips know they shall speak sincerely.
KJV
My words shall be of the uprightness of my heart: and my lips shall utter knowledge clearly.
My words are from my simple heart, and my lips shall speak a pure sentence. To say that speech is simple, is a praise of great weight. But because the haughty possess it not, they assert the more anxiously that they possess it, in order that they may be heard with less apprehension. And they declare that they are going to speak with pure intention, because they are afraid of their wicked duplicity being discovered.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
Through
Proverbs 15:2The tongue of the wise commends knowledge, but the mouth of the fool spouts folly.
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A shrewd man keeps his knowledge to himself, but a foolish heart proclaims its folly.
The heart of the righteous ponders how to answer, but the mouth of the wicked blurts out evil.
Every prudent man acts with knowledge, but a fool displays his folly.
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Proverbs 20:15There is an abundance of gold and rubies, but lips of knowledge are a rare treasure.
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For wisdom is more precious than rubies, and nothing you desire compares with her.
Like an earring of gold or an ornament of fine gold is a wise man’s rebuke to a listening ear.