Proverbs 19:28

A corrupt witness mocks justice, and the mouth of the wicked gulps down iniquity.


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    Job 15:16 - 17 - how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks iniquity like water! "I will show you, listen to me; that which I have seen I will declare:

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    Proverbs 16:27 - 30 - A worthless man devises mischief. His speech is like a scorching fire. A perverse man stirs up strife. A whisperer separates close friends. A man of violence entices his neighbor, and leads him in a way that is not good. One who winks his eyes to plot perversities, one who compresses his lips, is bent on evil.

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    Job 20:11 - 14 - His bones are full of his youth, but youth shall lie down with him in the dust. "Though wickedness is sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue, though he spare it, and will not let it go, but keep it still within his mouth; yet his food in his bowels is turned. It is cobra venom within him.

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    1 Kings 21:10 - Set two men, base fellows, before him, and let them testify against him, saying, `You cursed God and the king!' Then carry him out, and stone him to death."

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Comments

  • Matthew Henry - 12/1/2011*
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    Those are the worst of sinners, who are glad of an opportunity to sin.



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