2 No, in your hearts you devise injustice; with your hands you mete out violence on the earth. 3 The wicked are estranged from the womb; the liars go astray from birth. 4 Their venom is like the venom of a snake, like a cobra that shuts its ears,
Psalms 58:2–4
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Job 15:34–35
34 For the company of the godless will be barren, and fire will consume the tents of bribery. 35 They conceive trouble and give birth to evil; their womb is pregnant with deceit.”
Proverbs 24:1–3
1 Do not envy wicked men or desire their company; 2 for their hearts devise violence, and their lips declare trouble. 3 By wisdom a house is built and by understanding it is established;
Psalms 144:7–9
7 Reach down from on high; set me free and rescue me from the deep waters, from the grasp of foreigners, 8 whose mouths speak falsehood, whose right hands are deceitful. 9 I will sing to You a new song, O God; on a harp of ten strings I will make music to You—
Psalms 140:2–4
2 who devise evil in their hearts and stir up war all day long. 3 They sharpen their tongues like snakes; the venom of vipers is on their lips. Selah 4 Guard me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked. Keep me safe from men of violence who scheme to make me stumble.
Isaiah 59:3–5
3 For your hands are stained with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, and your tongue mutters injustice. 4 No one calls for justice; no one pleads his case honestly. They rely on empty pleas; they tell lies; they conceive mischief an…
Deuteronomy 32:32–34
32 But their vine is from the vine of Sodom and from the fields of Gomorrah. Their grapes are poisonous; their clusters are bitter. 33 Their wine is the venom of serpents, the deadly poison of cobras. 34 “Have I not stored up these things, sealed up within My vaults?
Psalms 7:13–15
13 He has prepared His deadly weapons; He ordains His arrows with fire. 14 Behold, the wicked man travails with evil; he conceives trouble and births falsehood. 15 He has dug a hole and hollowed it out; he has fallen into a pit of his own making.
Psalms 50:18–20
18 When you see a thief, you befriend him, and throw in your lot with adulterers. 19 You unleash your mouth for evil and unharness your tongue for deceit. 20 You sit and malign your brother; you slander your own mother’s son.
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