Parallel Verses

Julia Smith Translation

Thy tongue will purpose mischief as a razor being sharpened, working deceit.

New American Standard Bible

Your tongue devises destruction,
Like a sharp razor, O worker of deceit.

King James Version

Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp rasor, working deceitfully.

Holman Bible

Like a sharpened razor,
your tongue devises destruction,
working treachery.

International Standard Version

Your tongue, like a sharp razor, devises wicked things and crafts treachery.

A Conservative Version

Thy tongue devises wickedness, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

American Standard Version

Thy tongue deviseth very wickedness, Like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

Amplified


Your tongue devises destruction,
Like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

Bible in Basic English

Purposing destruction, using deceit; your tongue is like a sharp blade.

Darby Translation

Thy tongue deviseth mischievous things, like a sharp razor, practising deceit.

King James 2000

Your tongue devises evil; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Your tongue plans destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceit.

Modern King James verseion

Your tongue devises evil, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Thy tongue imagineth wickedness, and with lies it cutteth like a sharp razor.

NET Bible

Your tongue carries out your destructive plans; it is as effective as a sharp razor, O deceiver.

New Heart English Bible

Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

The Emphasized Bible

Engulfing ruin, doth thy tongue devise, Like a whetted razor, working deceit;

Webster

Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

World English Bible

Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

Youngs Literal Translation

Mischiefs doth thy tongue devise, Like a sharp razor, working deceit.

References

Easton

Context Readings

God Judges The Proud

1 To the overseer instruction to David: In the coming of Doeg the Edomite to Saul, and he will say to him, David came to the house of Ahimelech. Why wilt thou boast in evil, thou strong one? the mercy of God is all the day. 2 Thy tongue will purpose mischief as a razor being sharpened, working deceit. 3 Thou lovedst evil above good; falsehood more than speaking justice. Silence.

Cross References

Psalm 57:4

My soul is in the midst of lions: I shall lie down with the flaming, the sons of man, their teeth spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.

Psalm 50:19

Thou sentest thy month into evil, and thy tongue will contrive deceit

Psalm 59:7

Behold, they will gush out with their mouth: swords in their lips: for who heard?

Psalm 64:2-6

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

Psalm 109:2

For the mouth of the unjust, and the mouth of deceit opened against me; they eke with me the tongue of false-hood.

Psalm 120:2

O Jehovah, deliver my soul from lips of falsehood, from a tongue of deceit.

Psalm 140:2-3

Who reckoned evils in the heart; all the day they will gather together wars.

Proverbs 6:16-19

These six Jehovah hated, and seven an abomination of his soul:

Proverbs 12:18

There is he talking idly as the piercings of the sword: and the tongue of the wise is healing.

Proverbs 18:21

Death and life in the hand of the tongue: and they loving it shall eat its fruit

Proverbs 30:14

A generation, its teeth swords, and its biter's teeth, knives, to devour the poor from the land, and the needy from man.

Jeremiah 9:3-4

And they will bend their tongue, their bow, a lie: and they were not strong for faithfulness upon the land; for from evil to evil they went forth, and they knew me not, says Jehovah.

Jeremiah 18:18

And they will say, Come, and we will purpose purposes against Jeremiah; for law shall not perish from the priest, and counsel from the wise, and the word from the prophet Come, and we will strike him with the tongue, and we will not attend to any of his words.

Matthew 26:59

And the chief priests, and the elders, and the whole council sought false testimony against Jesus, so that they might put him to death;

Acts 6:11-13

Then they put under men, saying, That we have heard him speaking defaming words against Moses, and God.

Acts 24:1

And after five days the chief priest Ananias came down with the elders, and a certain orator, Tertullus, who exhibited to the leader against Paul.

Acts 24:5

For having found this man a scourge, and moving sedition to all Jews in the habitable globe, and standing in the first rank of the sect of Nazarites:

2 Corinthians 4:2

But have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craft, neither adulterating the word of God; but by manifestation of the truth recommending ourselves to every consciousness of man before God.

2 Corinthians 11:13

For such the falsely sent, crafty workers, being transformed into the sent of Christ.

Revelation 12:10

And I heard a great voice saying in heaven, Now was salvation and power, and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Christ for the accuser of our brethren was cast down, he accusing them before our God, day and night.

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