Vanity they speak each with his neighbour, Lip of flattery! With heart and heart they speak.Psalm 12:2 Additional Translations
Clarke's Commentary on the BibleThey speak vanity every one with his neighbor - They are false and hollow; they say one thing while they mean another; there is no trusting to what they say.
Flattering lips, and with a double heart do they speak - בלב ולב beleb valeb, "With a heart and a heart." They seem to have two hearts; one to speak fair words, and the other to invent mischief. The old MS. both translates and paraphrases curiously.
Trans. Dayn spak ilkan til his neghbur: swykil lippis in hert, and thurgh hert thai spak.
Par - Sothfastnes es lessed, and falsed waxes: and al sa vayn spak ilkone to bygyle his neghbur: and many spendes thair tyme in vayne speche withoutyn profyte and gastely frute. And that er swyku lippis; that er jangelers berkand ogaynes sothfastnes. And swykel, for thai speke in hert and thurgh hert; that es in dubil hert, qwen a fals man thynkes ane, and sais another, to desaif hym that he spekes with.
This homely comment cannot be mended.
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Psalm 10:7 His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.
Psalm 36:3,4 The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: he has left off to be wise, and to do good...
Psalm 38:12 They also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things...
Psalm 41:6 And if he come to see me, he speaks vanity: his heart gathers iniquity to itself; when he goes abroad, he tells it.
Psalm 52:1-4 Why boast you yourself in mischief, O mighty man? the goodness of God endures continually...
Psalm 59:12 For the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips let them even be taken in their pride: and for cursing and lying which they speak...
Psalm 144:8,11 Whose mouth speaks vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood...
Jeremiah 9:2-6,8 Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people...
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Psalm 5:9 For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is very wickedness; their throat is an open sepulcher...
Psalm 28:3 Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, which speak peace to their neighbors...
Psalm 62:4 They only consult to cast him down from his excellency: they delight in lies: they bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly...
Proverbs 20:19 He that goes about as a talebearer reveals secrets: therefore meddle not with him that flatters with his lips.
Proverbs 29:5 A man that flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his feet.
Ezekiel 12:24 For there shall be no more any vain vision nor flattering divination within the house of Israel.
Romans 16:18 For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly...
1 Thessalonians 2:5 For neither at any time used we flattering words, as you know, nor a cloak of covetousness; God is witness:
a double heart. Heb. an heart and an heart
1 Chronicles 12:33 Of Zebulun, such as went forth to battle, expert in war, with all instruments of war, fifty thousand, which could keep rank...
James 1:8 A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.
Psalm 12:2 Parallel Commentaries
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