Proverbs 29:5

for as he thinks about the cost, so he is. “Eat and drink!” he says to you, but his heart is not with you.

“Their throat is an open tomb. With their tongues they have used deceit.” “The poison of vipers is under their lips.”

If he comes to see me, he speaks falsehood. His heart gathers iniquity to itself. When he goes abroad, he tells it.

One who brings gossip betrays a confidence, but one who is of a trustworthy spirit is one who keeps a secret.

Should evil be recompensed for good? For they have dug a pit for my soul. Remember how I stood before you to speak good for them, to turn away your wrath from them.

Hear this, you elders, And listen, all you inhabitants of the land. Has this ever happened in your days, or in the days of your fathers?

Achish answered David, “I know that you are good in my sight, as an angel of God. Notwithstanding the princes of the Philistines have said, ‘He shall not go up with us to the battle.’

Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, about four hundred men, and said to them, “Should I go against Ramoth Gilead to battle, or should I refrain?” They said, “Go up; for the Lord will deliver it into the hand of the king.”

My skin grows black and peels from me. My bones are burned with heat.

His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and oppression. Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.

My eyes are ever on Yahweh, for he will pluck my feet out of the net.

For without cause they have hidden their net in a pit for me. Without cause they have dug a pit for my soul.

You brought us into prison. You laid a burden on our backs.

The wicked have laid a snare for me, yet I haven’t gone astray from your precepts.

For the lips of an adulteress drip honey. Her mouth is smoother than oil,

Then you will call, and Yahweh will answer. You will cry for help, and he will say, ‘Here I am.’ “If you take away from among you the yoke, finger pointing, and speaking wickedly;

Their tongue is a deadly arrow. It speaks deceit. One speaks peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in his heart, he waits to ambush him.

A prophet watches over Ephraim with my God. A fowler’s snare is on all of his paths, and hostility in the house of his God.

Yahweh says concerning the prophets who lead my people astray; for those who feed their teeth, they proclaim, “Peace!” and whoever doesn’t provide for their mouths, they prepare war against him:

I heard, and my body trembled. My lips quivered at the voice. Rottenness enters into my bones, and I tremble in my place, because I must wait quietly for the day of trouble, for the coming up of the people who invade us.

“Most certainly, I tell you, one who doesn’t enter by the door into the sheep fold, but climbs up some other way, is a thief and a robber.

I coveted no one’s silver, gold, or clothing.

For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the Good News of his Son, how unceasingly I make mention of you always in my prayers,

whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things.

Now I say this that no one may delude you with persuasiveness of speech.

Absalom did this sort of thing to all Israel who came to the king for judgment. So Absalom stole the hearts of the men of Israel.

He has slandered your servant to my lord the king, but my lord the king is as an angel of God. Therefore do what is good in your eyes.

Of Zebulun, such as were able to go out in the army, who could set the battle in array, with all kinds of instruments of war: fifty thousand who could command and were not of double heart.

know now that God has subverted me, and has surrounded me with his net.

For there is no faithfulness in their mouth. Their heart is destruction. Their throat is an open tomb. They flatter with their tongue.

The nations have sunk down in the pit that they made. In the net which they hid, their own foot is taken.

I am poured out like water. All my bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax. It is melted within me.

Don’t draw me away with the wicked, with the workers of iniquity who speak peace with their neighbors, but mischief is in their hearts.

In the shelter of your presence you will hide them from the plotting of man. You will keep them secretly in a dwelling away from the strife of tongues.

They also who seek after my life lay snares. Those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and meditate deceits all day long.

They fully intend to throw him down from his lofty place. They delight in lies. They bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly.

They encourage themselves in evil plans. They talk about laying snares secretly. They say, “Who will see them?”

For my days consume away like smoke. My bones are burned as a torch.

Keep me from the snare which they have laid for me, from the traps of the workers of iniquity.

When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, you knew my route. On the path in which I walk, they have hidden a snare for me.

whose mouths speak deceit, whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

He who diligently seeks good seeks favor, but he who searches after evil, it shall come to him.

who tell the seers, “Don’t see!” and the prophets, “Don’t prophesy to us right things. Tell us pleasant things. Prophesy deceits.

Their quiver is an open tomb. They are all mighty men.

For even your brothers, and the house of your father, even they have dealt treacherously with you! Even they have cried aloud after you! Don’t believe them, though they speak beautiful words to you.

I will spread my net on him, and he will be taken in my snare. I will bring him to Babylon, and will enter into judgment with him there for his trespass that he has trespassed against me.

“Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel. Prophesy, and tell them, even the shepherds, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Woe to the shepherds of Israel who feed themselves! Shouldn’t the shepherds feed the sheep?

As for both these kings, their hearts will be to do mischief, and they will speak lies at one table; but it won’t prosper, for the end will still be at the appointed time.

Now when they fall, they will be helped with a little help; but many will join themselves to them with flatteries.

As gangs of robbers wait to ambush a man, so the company of priests murder on the path toward Shechem, committing shameful crimes.

Jesus answered them, “Most certainly I tell you, you seek me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate of the loaves, and were filled.

They zealously seek you in no good way. No, they desire to alienate you, that you may seek them.

Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but only what is good for building others up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear.

constant friction of people of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain. Withdraw yourself from such.

He is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.

In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn’t linger, and their destruction will not slumber.

“ ‘You shall not go around as a slanderer among your people. “ ‘You shall not endanger the life of your neighbor. I am Yahweh.

Now therefore send, and gather to me all Israel to Mount Carmel, and four hundred fifty of the prophets of Baal, and four hundred of the prophets of the Asherah, who eat at Jezebel’s table.”

in which was written, “It is reported among the nations, and Gashmu says it, that you and the Jews intend to rebel. Because of that, you are building the wall. You would be their king, according to these words.

He hired so that I would be afraid, do so, and sin, and that they might have material for an evil report, that they might reproach me.

But the eyes of the wicked will fail. They will have no way to flee. Their hope will be the giving up of the spirit.”

Everyone lies to his neighbor. They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart.

Behold, you desire truth in the inward parts. You teach me wisdom in the inmost place.

Yahweh upholds all who fall, and raises up all those who are bowed down.

to keep you from the immoral woman, from the flattery of the wayward wife’s tongue.

He who guards his mouth guards his soul. One who opens wide his lips comes to ruin.

A man of violence entices his neighbor, and leads him in a way that is not good.

A man who isolates himself pursues selfishness, and defies all sound judgment.

The words of a gossip are like dainty morsels: they go down into a person’s innermost parts.

My son, fear Yahweh and the king. Don’t join those who are rebellious;

Then they said, “Come! Let’s devise plans against Jeremiah; for the law won’t perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let’s strike him with the tongue, and let’s not give heed to any of his words.”

Let a cry be heard from their houses when you bring a troop suddenly on them; for they have dug a pit to take me and hidden snares for my feet.

I will also spread my net on him, and he will be taken in my snare. I will bring him to Babylon to the land of the Chaldeans; yet he will not see it, though he will die there.

Saul said, I will give her to him, that she may be a snare to him, and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him. Therefore Saul said to David, “You shall today be my son-in-law a second time.”

Then your servant said, ‘Please let the word of my lord the king bring rest; for as an angel of God, so is my lord the king to discern good and bad. May Yahweh, your God, be with you.’ ”

Your servant Joab has done this thing to change the face of the matter. My lord is wise, according to the wisdom of an angel of God, to know all things that are in the earth.”

Now therefore call to me all the prophets of Baal, all of his worshipers, and all of his priests. Let no one be absent; for I have a great sacrifice to Baal. Whoever is absent, he shall not live.” But Jehu did deceptively, intending to destroy the worshipers of Baal.

Now after the death of Jehoiada, the princes of Judah came, and bowed down to the king. Then the king listened to them.

He who denounces his friends for plunder, Even the eyes of his children will fail.

For I don’t know how to give flattering titles, or else my Maker would soon take me away.

Pluck me out of the net that they have laid secretly for me, for you are my stronghold.

They have prepared a net for my steps. My soul is bowed down. They dig a pit before me. They fall into the middle of it themselves.

The proud have hidden a snare for me, they have spread the cords of a net by the path. They have set traps for me.

For the net is spread in vain in the sight of any bird;

to deliver you from the strange woman, even from the foreigner who flatters with her words,

that they may keep you from the strange woman, from the foreigner who flatters with her words.

With persuasive words, she led him astray. With the flattering of her lips, she seduced him.

He who goes about as a tale-bearer reveals secrets; therefore don’t keep company with him who opens wide his lips.

A lying tongue hates those it hurts; and a flattering mouth works ruin.

One who rebukes a man will afterward find more favor than one who flatters with the tongue.

“From on high has he sent fire into my bones, and it prevails against them. He has spread a net for my feet. He has turned me back. He has made me desolate and I faint all day long.

“Listen to this, you priests! Listen, house of Israel, and give ear, house of the king! For the judgment is against you; for you have been a snare at Mizpah, and a net spread on Tabor.

They sent their disciples to him, along with the Herodians, saying, “Teacher, we know that you are honest, and teach the way of God in truth, no matter whom you teach, for you aren’t partial to anyone.

When he was called, Tertullus began to accuse him, saying, “Seeing that by you we enjoy much peace, and that prosperity is coming to this nation by your foresight,

For those who are such don’t serve our Lord, Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by their smooth and flattering speech, they deceive the hearts of the innocent.

For neither were we at any time found using words of flattery, as you know, nor a cloak of covetousness (God is witness),