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• EVIL Jude 1:8-10Exodus 22:28Job 19:18Psalms 10:7Psalms 10:8Psalms 12:3Psalms 12:4Psalms 34:13Psalms 35:21Psalms 41:5–9Psalms 52:2–4Psalms 59:12Psalms 64:2–5Psalms 69:12Psalms 69:26Psalms 70:3Psalms 102:8Psalms 106:33Psalms 119:23Psalms 120:1–7Psalms 140:3
• See Accusation, False
• See Blasphemy
• See Busybody
• See Falsehood
• See Flattery
• See Slander
• See Talebearer
• See Uncharitablness
• FOLLY INJob 13:5Job 16:3Job 16:4Job 38:2Proverbs 10:14Proverbs 12:23Proverbs 13:3Proverbs 14:3Proverbs 15:2Proverbs 15:7Proverbs 15:14Proverbs 18:6Proverbs 18:7Proverbs 18:13Proverbs 26:4Proverbs 26:7Proverbs 26:9Proverbs 29:11Proverbs 29:20Proverbs 30:10
• See Fool
• WISDOM INJob 16:5Job 27:4Psalms 15:1–3Psalms 37:30Psalms 39:1Psalms 50:23Psalms 77:12Psalms 119:13Psalms 119:27Psalms 119:54Psalms 119:172Psalms 141:3Psalms 145:5–7Psalms 145:11Psalms 145:12Proverbs 10:11Proverbs 10:13Proverbs 10:19–21Proverbs 10:31Proverbs 10:32

The passages, in Bible order (167)

The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 16 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.

1. Exodus 22:28

   You must not blaspheme God or curse the ruler of your people.

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   “Thou shalt not revile the gods,....

   “Thou shalt not revile the gods - Most commentators believe that the word gods here means magistrates. The original is אלהים Elohim, and should be understood of the true God only: Thou shalt not blaspheme or make light of [תקלל tekallel] God, the fountain of justice and power, nor curse the ruler of thy people, who derives his authority from God. We shall ever find that he who despises a good civil government, and is disaffected to that under which he lives, is one who has little fear of God before his eyes.

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2. Job 13:5

   If only you would remain silent; for that would be your wisdom!

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   “O that ye would altogether hold your peace, and ye should be accounted wise! As in a house, when the door is shut, it is not known what members there are hidden within, so, generally speaking, if a fool hold his peace, it is hidden whether he be wise or foolish, only, however, if no other works come to light, which may speak the mind even of one that is silent.

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3. Job 16:3

   Is there no end to your long-winded speeches? What provokes you to continue testifying?

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   “Ver.3. Shall windy words have an end? For those are 'windy words,' which serve the end of temporal inflating, rather than the end of righteousness. Now oftentimes the wicked speak even good things, but because they do not say them well, they are putting forth 'windy words:' for their words, even if they be at any time sound in the sentence, are yet blown out in self-elation.

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4. Job 16:4

   I could also speak like you if you were in my place; I could heap up words against you and shake my head at you.

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   “Ver. 4-6. And O that your soul were for my soul! I too would comfort you with speeches, and move my head over you: I would strengthen you with my mouth, and move my lips as if sparing you.

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5. Job 16:5

   But I would encourage you with my mouth, and the consolation of my lips would bring relief.

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   “But whereas he says, not, 'sparing,' but, as if sparing you; I think that this point ought not to be passed by carelessly, in that Holy Church, while keeping vigorousness of discipline together with an union of gentleness, sometimes even while 'as if sparing,' is far from sparing the wicked, but sometimes, when 'as if not sparing' does spare them; which we shall exhibit the more effectually, if we bring forward the very things themselves which are not unfrequently happening.

   “Ver. 4-6. And O that your soul were for my soul! I too would comfort you with speeches, and move my head over you: I would strengthen you with my mouth, and move my lips as if sparing you.

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6. Job 19:18

   Even little boys scorn me; when I appear, they deride me.

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   “The foolish too despised me. The wise falling away from faith in the truth, there is an addition rightly made concerning 'fools' as well; in that when the Pharisees and the Lawyers despised the Lord, the rabble of the people too followed the example of their incredulousness, which herein, that it saw Him a man, slighted the announcements of the Redeemer of the world.

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7. Job 27:4

   my lips will not speak wickedness, and my tongue will not utter deceit.

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   “All the while my breath is in me, and the Spirit of God is in my nostrils, my lips shall not speak iniquity, nor my tongue meditate falsehood. What he first calls 'iniquity,' this repeating afterwards he calls 'falsehood.' For both all 'falsehood' is 'iniquity,' and all 'iniquity' 'falsehood,' because, whatever thing is at variance with truth is surely at odds with equity. But between this which he expresses, 'to speak' and that which he adds afterwards, to 'meditate,' there is a wide difference. For sometimes it is a worse thing to 'meditate' falsehood than to speak it.

   “And so he says, "my lips will not speak evil," in saying everyone who suffers adversities is evil, "nor will my tongue practice deceit," in saying that it belongs to divine justice to reward the merits of the just by present prosperity and to punish …

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8. Job 38:2

   “Who is this who obscures My counsel by words without knowledge?

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   “Who is this that involves sentences in unskilful words? As we have said also in the former part, an interrogative of this kind, in which it is said, Who is this? is the beginning of a reproof. For Eliu had spoken arrogantly. And we say not, Who is this, excepting expressly of him whom we know not. But knowledge on God's part is approval; His not knowing is rejection.

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9. Psalms 10:7

   His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and violence; trouble and malice are under his tongue.

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   “His wickedness is described as a two-fold corruption, for in his mouth he will have a blasphemous cursing when he makes the false claim that he is the Son of God. He will also have bitterness when he imposes the death penalty on those who …

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10. Psalms 10:8

    He lies in wait near the villages; in ambush he slays the innocent; his eyes watch in stealth for the helpless.

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    “And lastly, against the devil: 'God is not before his eyes, he sits in ambush with the rich.' Unhappy the rich, with whom the devil sits.

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11. Psalms 12:3

    May the LORD cut off all flattering lips and every boastful tongue.

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    “When the Lord wipes out those things that are base, he will destroy those very things, so that when those things that have come on a person unexpectedly have been destroyed, the foremost creation of God whom the baser things had overtaken may take up the higher things.

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12. Psalms 12:4

    They say, “With our tongues we will prevail. We own our lips—who can be our master?”

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    “With mouths agape they heedlessly utter whatever occurs to them, scornful of divine long-suffering and giving no thought to their falling under the lordship of God.

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13. Psalms 15:1–3

    O LORD, who may abide in Your tent? Who may dwell on Your holy mountain?

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    “The fourteenth psalm has been read at just the right moment; and it has come about in due order in such a way that it almost seems to have been read on purpose. The psalm was read in order: I think it has been brought about by God's dispensation that what was profitable to you should be recited today in the sequence of exposition. The fourteenth psalm has been read, which is titled A Psalm of David. But our David is Christ, as we have often said.

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14. Psalms 34:13

    Keep your tongue from evil and your lips from deceitful speech.

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    “If … anger has got the start, and has already taken possession of your mind and mounted into your heart, forsake not your ground. Your ground is patience, it is wisdom, it is reason, it is the allaying of indignation. And if the stubbornness of your opponent rouses you and his perverseness drives you to indignation: if you cannot calm your mind, check at least your tongue. For so it is written: "Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips that they speak no guile. Seek peace and pursue it." … First, then, calm your mind.

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15. Psalms 35:21

    They gape at me and say, “Aha, aha! Our eyes have seen!”

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    “Jerome has, "in the plunder of the earth, mocking words." He who mocks someone does two things: because such words distress the one mocked and gladden the mocker; and therefore he says, "they opened wide their mouth against me," as if boldly and gladly speaking …

    “Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me,.... In laughter, scorn, and derision; see Psa 22:7; and said, Aha, aha: a word expressive of joy; and the doubling it shows the greatness of it; our eye hath seen it; what their heart wished for; namely, the distress of him, whose enemies they were.

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16. Psalms 37:30

    The mouth of the righteous man utters wisdom, and his tongue speaks justice.

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    “Let us speak the Lord Jesus, for he is wisdom. He is the Word, the very Word of God. Does not Scripture say, "Open your mouth to the word of God"? Echo his speech, meditate his words, and you will breathe Jesus. When we speak of wisdom, it is he.… When we speak of truth and life and redemption, it is he.

    “The mouth of the righteous speaketh wisdom,....

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