⁹ For no faith may be put in their words; their inner part is nothing but evil; their throat is like an open place for the dead; smooth are the words of their tongues.

¹³ Their throat is like an open place of death; with their tongues they have said what is not true: the poison of snakes is under their lips:

⁴ Their only thought is to put him down from his place of honour; their delight is in deceit: blessing is in their mouths but cursing in their hearts. (Selah.)

⁶ Your desire is for what is true in the inner parts: in the secrets of my soul you will give me knowledge of wisdom.

² Purposing destruction, using deceit; your tongue is like a sharp blade.

¹² For its men of wealth are cruel, and its people have said what is not true, and their tongue is false in their mouth.

⁴⁴ A curse is on you! for you are like the resting-places of dead men, which are not seen, and men go walking over them without knowledge of it.

³ Their tongues are bent like a bow to send out false words: they have become strong in the land, but not for good faith: they go on from evil to evil, and they have no knowledge of me, says the Lord.

⁴ Let everyone keep watch on his neighbour, and put no faith in any brother: for every brother will certainly be tricking his brother, and every neighbour will go about saying evil.

⁵ Everyone will make sport of his neighbour with deceit, not saying what is true: their tongues have been trained to say false words; they are twisted, hating to come back.

⁶ There is wrong on wrong, deceit on deceit; they have given up the knowledge of me, says the Lord.

¹ Let the Lord be praised. I will give praise to the Lord with all my heart, among the upright, and in the meeting of the people.

² The works of the Lord are great, searched out by all those who have delight in them.

³ His work is full of honour and glory; and his righteousness is unchanging for ever.

⁶ Or make discovery of our secret purpose? The design is framed with care; and the inner thought of a man, and his heart, is deep.

⁹ Truly men of low birth are nothing, and men of high position are not what they seem; if they are put in the scales together they are less than a breath.

² The purposes of your hearts are evil; your hands are full of cruel doings on the earth.

³ The evil-doers are strange from the first; from the hour of their birth they go out of the true way, saying false words.

¹ <To the chief music-maker. Of the servant of the Lord. Of David.> The sin of the evil-doer says in his heart, There is no fear of the Lord before his eyes.

² For he takes comfort in the thought that his sin will not be uncovered and hated.

³ In the words of his mouth are evil and deceit; he has given up being wise and doing good.

⁴ He gives thought to evil on his bed; he takes a way which is not good; he is not a hater of evil.

² Everyone says false words to his neighbour: their tongues are smooth in their talk, and their hearts are full of deceit.

³ The smooth lips and the tongue of pride will be cut off by the Lord.

²¹ Let me not give respect to any man, or give names of honour to any living.

²² For I am not able to give names of honour to any man; and if I did, my Maker would quickly take me away.

¹⁴ O Jerusalem, make your heart clean from evil, so that you may have salvation. How long are evil purposes to have a resting-place in you?

⁹ The heart is a twisted thing, not to be searched out by man: who is able to have knowledge of it?

²¹ Because from inside, from the heart of men, come evil thoughts and unclean pleasures,

²² The taking of goods and of life, broken faith between husband and wife, the desire of wealth, wrongdoing, deceit, sins of the flesh, an evil eye, angry words, pride, foolish acts:

³⁹ And the Lord said to him, You Pharisees make the outside of the cup and the plate clean; but inside you are thieves and full of evil.

²⁹ Being full of all wrongdoing, evil, desire for the goods of others, hate, envy, putting to death, fighting, deceit, cruel ways, evil talk, and false statements about others;

³⁰ Hated by God, full of pride, without respect, full of loud talk, given to evil inventions, not honouring father or mother,

³¹ Without knowledge, not true to their undertakings, unkind, having no mercy:

⁵ For it is common knowledge among you that we never made use of smooth-sounding false words, and God is witness that at no time were we secretly desiring profit for ourselves,

⁵ A man who says smooth things to his neighbour is stretching out a net for his steps.