Parallel Verses

A Conservative Version

His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and oppression. Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.

New American Standard Bible

His mouth is full of curses and deceit and oppression;
Under his tongue is mischief and wickedness.

King James Version

His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.

Holman Bible

Cursing, deceit, and violence fill his mouth;
trouble and malice are under his tongue.

International Standard Version

Their mouth is full of curses, lies, and oppression, their tongues spread trouble and iniquity.

American Standard Version

His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and oppression: Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.

Amplified


His mouth is full of curses and deceit (fraud) and oppression;
Under his tongue is mischief and wickedness [injustice and sin].

Bible in Basic English

His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and false words: under his tongue are evil purposes and dark thoughts.

Darby Translation

His mouth is full of cursing, and deceit, and oppression; under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.

Julia Smith Translation

His mouth was filled with cursing and deceit and violence: under his tongue, trouble and vanity.

King James 2000

His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.

Lexham Expanded Bible

His mouth is filled with cursing, with deceits and oppression; under his tongue are trouble and evil.

Modern King James verseion

His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud; under his tongue are mischief and vanity.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

His mouth is full of cursing, deceit and fraud; under his tongue is travail and sorrow.

NET Bible

His mouth is full of curses and deceptive, harmful words; his tongue injures and destroys.

New Heart English Bible

His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and oppression. Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.

The Emphasized Bible

With cursing, his mouth is full, and with deceptions and oppression, Under his tongue, are trouble and mischief:

Webster

His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.

World English Bible

His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and oppression. Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.

Youngs Literal Translation

Of oaths his mouth is full, And deceits, and fraud: Under his tongue is perverseness and iniquity,

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
is full
מלא מלא 
Male' 
Usage: 251

of cursing
אלה 
'alah 
Usage: 35

and deceit
מרמה 
Mirmah 
Usage: 39

and fraud
תּוך תּך 
Tok 
Usage: 3

לשׁנה לשׁן לשׁון 
Lashown 
Usage: 116

References

Hastings

Context Readings

A Prayer For God To Throw Down The Wicked

6 He says in his heart, I shall not be moved. To all generations I shall not be in adversity. 7 His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and oppression. Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity. 8 He sits in the lurking-places of the villages. In the covert places he murders the innocent man. His eyes are secretly set against the poor man.



Cross References

Psalm 7:14

Behold [the wicked man], he travails with iniquity. Yea, he has conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood.

Job 20:12

Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue,

Psalm 36:3

The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit. He has ceased to be wise [and] to do good.

Psalm 140:3

They have sharpened their tongue like a serpent. Adders' poison is under their lips. Selah.

Job 15:35

They conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity, and their heart prepares deceit.

Psalm 5:9

For there is no faithfulness in their mouth. Their inward part is very wickedness. Their throat is an open sepulcher. With their tongue they {deceive (LXX/NT)}.

Psalm 12:2

They speak falsehood everyone with his neighbor. With flattering lip, and with a double heart, they speak.

Psalm 41:6

And if he comes to see [me], he speaks falsehood. His heart gathers iniquity to itself. When he goes abroad, he tells it.

Psalm 52:4

Thou love all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue.

Psalm 55:21

His mouth was smooth as butter, but his heart was war. His words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords.

Psalm 58:3

The wicked are estranged from the womb. They go astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies.

Psalm 59:12

[for] the sin of their mouth, [and] the words of their lips. Let them even be taken in their pride, and for cursing and lying which they speak.

Psalm 62:4

They only consult to thrust him down from his dignity. They delight in lies. They bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly. Selah.

Psalm 64:3

who have whet their tongue like a sword, and have aimed their arrows, even bitter words,

Psalm 73:8

They scoff, and in wickedness utter oppression. They speak loftily.

Psalm 140:9

As for the head of those who encompass me around, let the mischief of their own lips cover them.

Psalm 144:8

whose mouth speaks deceit, and whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

Psalm 144:11

Rescue me, and deliver me out of the hand of aliens, whose mouth speaks deceit, and whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

Proverbs 21:6

The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vapor driven to and fro by those who seek death.

Proverbs 30:8

Remove far from me falsehood and lies. Give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with the food that is needful for me,

Isaiah 59:4

No man sues in righteousness, and no man pleads in truth. They trust in vanity, and speak lies. They conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.

Jeremiah 9:3

And they bend their tongue--their bow--for falsehood, and they have grown strong in the land, but not for truth. For they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not know me, says LORD.

Jeremiah 9:6

Thy habitation is in the midst of deceit. Through deceit they refuse to know me, says LORD.

Matthew 12:34

Ye offspring of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.

Romans 3:13-14

Their throat is an open grave. With their tongues they deceive. The poison of asps is under their lips,

James 3:6-8

And the tongue is a fire, the world of unrighteousness. Thus, the tongue is made to lead among our body-parts, defiling the whole body, and setting the cycle of nature on fire, and being set on fire by hell.

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