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 unjust he will burn the poor: they shall be taken in the devices that they purposed.

The foot of pride shall not come to me, and the hand of the unjust shall not move me.

Happy the man who set Jehovah his trust, and turned not to the arrogant, and those turning aside to falsehood.

O God, the proud rose up against me, and the assemblies of the terrible sought my soul; and they set not thee before them.

Then the swelling waters passed over our soul.

The proud hid a snare for me, and cords; they spread a net at the hand of the way; they set snares for me. Silence.

Now I knew that Jehovah is great above all gods; for in the word they acted proudly over them.

And he gives greater grace. Wherefore he says, God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.

The strife

Thou wilt cover me from the consultation of evil ones; from the crowd of the workers of vanity:

They sharpened their tongue as a serpent; the poison of asps under their lips. Silence,

In the scourge of the tongue thou shalt be hid, and thou shalt not be afraid of desolation when it shall come.

As in the day, let us walk becomingly; not in revelries and drunkenness, not in coition and licentiousness, not in strife and envy.

For I am afraid, lest somehow, having come, I find you not such; as I will, and I find you such as ye wish not: lest somehow, strifes, jealousies, wraths, intrigues, calumnies, whisperings, inflations, derangements:

Idolatry, charm, enmities, strifes, jealousies, wraths, intriguings, seditions, sects

He has been proud, knowing nothing, but sick about questions and disputes of words, of which is envy, strife, slanders, evil conjectures,

So also the tongue is a small member, and vaunts itself. Behold, how great a wood a little fire inflames