Psalms 12:2
2Everyone autters lies to his neighbor;with bflattering lips and ca double heart they speak.
Proverbs 6:26
26for dthe price of a prostitute is only ea loaf of bread, ▼▼Or (compare Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate) for a prostitute leaves a man with nothing but a loaf of bread
but a married woman ▼
▼Hebrew a man’s wife
hhunts down a precious life.Proverbs 7:21
21 With much seductive speech she persuades him;with iher smooth talk she compels him.
Proverbs 22:14
14The mouth of jforbidden ▼▼Hebrew strange
women is la deep pit;mhe with whom the Lord is angry will fall into it.
Proverbs 26:28
28A lying tongue hates its victims,and a flattering mouth works ruin.
Jeremiah 9:2-5
2 ▼▼Ch 9:1 in Hebrew
Oh that I had in the deserta travelers’ lodging place,
that I might leave my people
and go away from them!
For they are all oadulterers,
a company of ptreacherous men.
3 qThey bend their tongue like a bow;
falsehood and not truth has grown strong ▼
▼Septuagint; Hebrew and not for truth they have grown strong
in the land;for they proceed from evil to evil,
sand they do not know me, declares the Lord.
4 tLet everyone beware of his neighbor,
and put no trust in any brother,
for every ubrother is a deceiver,
and every neighbor vgoes about as a slanderer.
5Everyone deceives his neighbor,
and no one speaks the truth;
they have taught their tongue to speak lies;
they weary themselves committing iniquity.
Micah 7:2
2 wThe godly has perished from the earth,and xthere is no one upright among mankind;
ythey all lie in wait for blood,
and zeach hunts the other with a net.
Micah 7:5
5 aaPut no trust in a neighbor;have no confidence in a friend;
guard abthe doors of your mouth
from her who lies in your arms; ▼
▼Hebrew bosom
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