An evildoer listens to wicked lips, and a liar gives heed to a mischievous tongue.
A wicked doer giveth heed to false lips; And a liar giveth ear to a naughty tongue.
An evildoer gives heed to wicked lips; and a liar listens to a mischievous tongue.
An evil-doer giveth heed to wicked lips; And a liar giveth ear to a mischievous tongue.
An evildoer pays attention to guilty lips; a liar listens to a destructive tongue.
The evil obey an unjust tongue. And the false are submissive to lying lips.
The evil man obeyeth an unjust tongue: and the deceitful hearkeneth to lying lips.
God gives me up to the evil and casts me into the hands of the wicked.
The simple believe everything, but the clever consider their steps.
Those who forsake the law praise the wicked, but those who keep the law struggle against them.
who say to the seers, “Do not see,” and to the prophets, “Do not prophesy to us what is right; speak to us smooth things; prophesy illusions;
the prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule as the prophets direct; my people love to have it so, but what will you do when the end comes?
They are from the world; therefore what they say is from the world, and the world listens to them.