Parallel Verses

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.

A Conservative Version

His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and oppression. Under his tongue is mischief 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; throughout all generations I shall not meet adversity." 7 His mouth is full of curses and deceit and oppression;
Under his tongue is mischief and wickedness.
8 He sits in ambush in the villages; in hiding places he murders the innocent. His eyes stealthily watch for the helpless;

Cross References

Psalm 7:14

Behold, the wicked man conceives evil and is pregnant with mischief and gives birth to lies.

Job 20:12

"Though evil is sweet in his mouth, though he hides it under his tongue,

Psalm 36:3

The words of his mouth are trouble and deceit; he has ceased to act wisely and do good.

Psalm 140:3

They make their tongue sharp as a serpent's, and under their lips is the venom of asps. Selah

Job 15:35

They conceive trouble and give birth to evil, and their womb prepares deceit."

Psalm 5:9

For there is no truth in their mouth; their inmost self is destruction; their throat is an open grave; they flatter with their tongue.

Psalm 12:2

Everyone utters lies to his neighbor; with flattering lips and a double heart they speak.

Psalm 41:6

And when one comes to see me, he utters empty words, while his heart gathers iniquity; when he goes out, he tells it abroad.

Psalm 52:4

You love all words that devour, O deceitful tongue.

Psalm 55:21

His speech was smooth as butter, yet war was in his heart; his words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords.

Psalm 58:3

The wicked are estranged from the womb; they go astray from birth, speaking lies.

Psalm 59:12

For the sin of their mouths, the words of their lips, let them be trapped in their pride. For the cursing and lies that they utter,

Psalm 62:4

They only plan to thrust him down from his high position. They take pleasure in falsehood. They bless with their mouths, but inwardly they curse. Selah

Psalm 64:3

who whet their tongues like swords, who aim bitter words like arrows,

Psalm 73:8

They scoff and speak with malice; loftily they threaten oppression.

Psalm 140:9

As for the head of those who surround me, let the mischief of their lips overwhelm them!

Psalm 144:8

whose mouths speak lies and whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

Psalm 144:11

Rescue me and deliver me from the hand of foreigners, whose mouths speak lies and whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

Proverbs 21:6

The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapor and a snare of death.

Proverbs 30:8

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

Isaiah 59:4

No one enters suit justly; no one goes to law honestly; they rely on empty pleas, they speak lies, they conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity.

Jeremiah 9:3

They bend their tongue like a bow; falsehood and not truth has grown strong in the land; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not know me, declares the LORD.

Jeremiah 9:6

Heaping oppression upon oppression, and deceit upon deceit, they refuse to know me, declares the LORD.

Matthew 12:34

You brood of vipers! How can you speak good, when you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.

Romans 3:13-14

"Their throat is an open grave; they use their tongues to deceive." "The venom of asps is under their lips."

James 3:6-8

And the tongue is a fire, a world of unrighteousness. The tongue is set among our members, staining the whole body, setting on fire the entire course of life, and set on fire by hell.

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