For behold, the sinners have bent their bow. They have prepared their arrows in the quiver, so as to shoot arrows in the dark at the upright of heart.
Proverbs 6:12 - Catholic Public Domain Version An apostate man, a harmful man, walks with a perverse mouth; 更多版本King James Version (Oxford) 1769 A naughty person, a wicked man, Walketh with a froward mouth. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition A worthless person, a wicked man, is he who goes about with a perverse (contrary, wayward) mouth. American Standard Version (1901) A worthless person, a man of iniquity, Is he that walketh with a perverse mouth; Common English Bible Worthless people and guilty people go around with crooked talk. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version A man that is an apostate, an unprofitable man, walketh with a perverse mouth, English Standard Version 2016 A worthless person, a wicked man, goes about with crooked speech, |
For behold, the sinners have bent their bow. They have prepared their arrows in the quiver, so as to shoot arrows in the dark at the upright of heart.
He will rain down snares upon sinners. Fire and brimstone and windstorms will be the portion of their cup.
Do not turn your face away from me. In whatever day that I am in trouble, incline your ear to me. In whatever day that I will call upon you, heed me quickly.
Hope in the Lord and do good, and dwell in the land, and so you shall be pastured with its riches.
The lips of the just consider what is acceptable. And the mouth of the impious considers perversities.
The justice of the upright shall free them. And the iniquitous will be seized by their own treachery.
Whoever, with astonished eyes, thinks up depravities, biting his lips, accomplishes evil.
so that you may be rescued from the evil way, and from the man who speaks perversities,
For everyone who ridicules is an abomination to the Lord, and his communication is for the simple.
The fear of the Lord hates evil. I detest arrogance, and pride, and every wicked way, and a mouth with a double tongue.
One basket had exceedingly good figs, like the figs usually found early in the season, and the other basket had exceedingly bad figs, which could not be eaten because they were so bad.
Progeny of vipers, how are you able to speak good things while you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.
And from among yourselves, men will rise up, speaking perverse things in order to entice disciples after them.
And being at the same time also idle, they learn to go from house to house, being not only idle, but also talkative and curious, speaking of things which do not concern them.
Because of this, having cast away all uncleanness and an abundance of malice, receive with meekness the newly-grafted Word, which is able to save your souls.
And so the tongue is like a fire, comprising all iniquity. The tongue, stationed in the midst of our body, can defile the entire body and inflame the wheel of our nativity, setting a fire from Hell.
Now when Eliab, his eldest brother, had heard this, as he was speaking with the others, he became angry against David, and he said: "Why did you come here? And why did you leave behind those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your pride and the wickedness of your heart, that you have come down so that you might see the battle."