Proverbs 26:28

New American Bible - revised edition

The lying tongue is its owner’s enemy, and the flattering mouth works ruin.

See the chapter Copy

Then she told him the same story: “The Hebrew slave whom you brought us came to me to amuse himself at my expense.

Saving you from a stranger, from a foreign woman with her smooth words,

Those who speak flattery to their neighbor cast a net at their feet.

Keeping you from another’s wife, from the smooth tongue of the foreign woman.

That they may keep you from a stranger, from the foreign woman with her smooth words.

But now you are trying to kill me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God; Abraham did not do this.