Psalm 31:20

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Summary

Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the pride of man: thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues.

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The strife

Bible References

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In the pride of the wicked the poor is hotly pursued; Let them be taken in the devices that they have conceived.

Let not the foot of pride come against me, And let not the hand of the wicked drive me away.

Blessed is the man that maketh Jehovah his trust, And respecteth not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.

O God, the proud are risen up against me, And a company of violent men have sought after my soul, And have not set thee before them.

Then the proud waters had gone over our soul.

The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; They have spread a net by the wayside; They have set gins for me. Selah

Now I know that Jehovah is greater than all gods; yea, in the thing wherein they dealt proudly against them.

But he giveth more grace. Wherefore the scripture'saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace to the humble.

The strife

Hide me from the secret counsel of evil-doers, From the tumult of the workers of iniquity;

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

Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue; Neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh.

Let us walk becomingly, as in the day; not in revelling and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and jealousy.

For I fear, lest by any means, when I come, I should find you not such as I would, and should myself be found of you such as ye would not; lest by any means there should be'strife, jealousy, wraths, factions, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults;

idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousies, wraths, factions, divisions, parties,

he is puffed up, knowing nothing, but doting about questionings and disputes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings,

So the tongue also is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how much wood is kindled by how small a fire!