A wicked doer giveth heed to false lips; and a liar giveth ear to a naughty tongue.
An evil-doer giveth heed to wicked lips; And a liar giveth ear to a mischievous tongue.
An evil doer is attentive to lips of vanity, Falsehood is giving ear to a mischievous tongue.
The evil-doer giveth heed to iniquitous lips; the liar giveth ear to a mischievous tongue.
Proverbs — Gnomic wisdom — sayings, instructions, and the binary of wisdom vs. folly. Fear of the LORD as the integrative theme; the virtuous woman of Prov 31 as the book's closing portrait of wisdom embodied.
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A wicked doer giveth heed to false lips,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)reformed
The two clauses describe two phases of the mutual affinities of evil. The evil-doer delights in lies, the liar in bad words.
Albert Barnes· Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)evangelical
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.
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Proverbs 28:4Those who forsake the law praise the wicked, but those who keep the law resist them.
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Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things are worthy of death, they not only continue to do these things, but also approve of those who practice them.
Have no fellowship with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them.
because John had been telling him, “It is not lawful for you to have her.”
But when John saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his place of baptism, he said to them, “You brood of vipers, who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?
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1 John 4:5They are of the world. That is why they speak from the world’s perspective, and the world listens to them.
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Then He told them, “You are from below; I am from above. You are of this world; I am not of this world.
Many will follow in their depravity, and because of them the way of truth will be defamed.
I have given them Your word and the world has hated them; for they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.
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Jeremiah 5:31The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority. My people love it so, but what will you do in the end?
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They see false visions and speak lying divinations. They claim, ‘Thus declares the LORD,’ when the LORD did not send them; yet they wait for the fulfillment of their message.
The whole web at once: see the Arc.
The verses this one reaches11
For the time will come when men will not tolerate sound doctrine, but with itching ears they will gather around themselves teachers to suit their own desires.
Those who forsake the law praise the wicked, but those who keep the law resist them.
They are of the world. That is why they speak from the world’s perspective, and the world listens to them.
They say to the seers, “Stop seeing visions!” and to the prophets, “Do not prophesy to us the truth! Speak to us pleasant words; prophesy illusions.
A worthless person, a wicked man, walks with a perverse mouth,
The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority. My people love it so, but what will you do in the end?
“You shall not spread a false report. Do not join the wicked by being a malicious witness.
and said to Saul, “Why do you listen to the words of men who say, ‘Look, David intends to harm you’?
One of the heads of the beast appeared to be mortally wounded. But the mortal wound was healed, and the whole world marveled and followed the beast.
So the king of Israel assembled the prophets, about four hundred men, and asked them, “Should I go to war against Ramoth-gilead, or should I refrain?” “Go up,” they replied, “and the Lord will deliver it into the hand of the king.”
Then Saul said to his servants, “Listen, men of Benjamin! Is the son of Jesse giving all of you fields and vineyards and making you commanders of thousands or hundreds?
