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Proverbs 11:9

An hypocrite with his mouth destroyeth his neighbour: but through knowledge shall the just be delivered.

KJV

Simulator ore decipit amicum suum ; justi autem liberabuntur scientia.

Vulgate

ἐν στόματι ἀσεβῶν παγὶς πολίταις, αἴσθησις δὲ δικαίων εὔοδος.

LXX

With his mouth the godless man destroyeth his neighbor; But through knowledge shall the righteous be delivered.

ASV

בְּ/פֶ֗ה חָ֭נֵף יַשְׁחִ֣ת רֵעֵ֑/הוּ וּ֝/בְ/דַ֗עַת צַדִּיקִ֥ים יֵחָלֵֽצוּ

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

7 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

דָֽעַת
d't
verb · 93×
הּ
h
verb · 147×
הוּ
hv
noun · 186×
חָנֵ֣ף
chnp
adjective · 13×
י
y
noun · 496×
נִי
ny
verb · 44×
צַדִּ֑יק
tsdyq
adjective · 199×

Historic Christian voices

4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • 1John 2:21 — I have not written unto you because ye know not the truth, but because ye know it, and that no lie is of the truth.
  • 1John 2:27 — But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as i
  • 1Tim 4:1 — Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;
  • 2Cor 11:13 — For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.
  • 2Pet 2:1 — But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring up
  • 2Pet 3:16 — As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, u
  • Acts 20:30 — Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.
  • Job 8:13 — So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite’s hope shall perish:
  • Prov 2:10 — When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul;
  • Prov 4:5 — Get wisdom, get understanding: forget it not; neither decline from the words of my mouth.
  • Prov 6:23 — For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:
  • Ps 55:12 — For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it: neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me; then I would have hid myself from him:
  • Ps 55:20 — He hath put forth his hands against such as be at peace with him: he hath broken his covenant.