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Wycliffe Bible

Psalms 10:7

`Whos mouth is ful of cursyng, and of bitternesse, and of gyle; trauel and sorewe is vndur his tunge.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Deceit;   Falsehood;   Malice;   Quotations and Allusions;   Speaking;   Vanity;   Wicked (People);   Thompson Chain Reference - Blasphemy-Profanity;   Cursing;   Evil;   Mischief;   Silence-Speech;   Speaking, Evil;   Speech;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Deceit;   Swearing, Profane;   Vanity;  

Dictionaries:

- Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Acrostic;   English Versions;   Greek Versions of Ot;   Psalms;   Sin;   Vanity;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Quotations;   Tongue;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Psalms the book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Deceit;   Mischief;   Tongue;   Vanity;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Cursing;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for January 1;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Cursing, deceit, and violence fill his mouth;trouble and malice are under his tongue.
Hebrew Names Version
His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and oppression. Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.
King James Version
His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.
English Standard Version
His mouth is filled with cursing and deceit and oppression; under his tongue are mischief and iniquity.
New Century Version
Their mouths are full of curses, lies, and threats; they use their tongues for sin and evil.
New English Translation
His mouth is full of curses and deceptive, harmful words; his tongue injures and destroys.
Amplified Bible
His mouth is full of curses and deceit (fraud) and oppression; Under his tongue is mischief and wickedness [injustice and sin].
New American Standard Bible
His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and oppression; Under his tongue is harm and injustice.
World English Bible
His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and oppression. Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.
Geneva Bible (1587)
His mouth is full of cursing and deceite and fraude: vnder his tongue is mischiefe and iniquitie.
Legacy Standard Bible
His mouth is full of curses and deceit and oppression;Under his tongue is mischief and wickedness.
Berean Standard Bible
His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and violence; trouble and malice are under his tongue.
Contemporary English Version
They curse and tell lies, and all they talk about is how to be cruel or how to do wrong.
Complete Jewish Bible
His mouth is full of curses, deceit, oppression; under his tongue, mischief and injustice.
Darby Translation
His mouth is full of cursing, and deceit, and oppression; under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.
Easy-to-Read Version
They are always cursing, lying, and planning evil things to do.
George Lamsa Translation
His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud; under his tongue is mischief and deceit.
Good News Translation
Their speech is filled with curses, lies, and threats; they are quick to speak hateful, evil words.
Lexham English Bible
His mouth is filled with cursing, with deceits and oppression; under his tongue are trouble and evil.
Literal Translation
His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and injury; under his tongue are mischief and vanity.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
He sytteth lurkynge in the gardens, that he maye pryuely murthur the innocent, his eyes are set vpo the poore.
American Standard Version
His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and oppression: Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.
Bible in Basic English
His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and false words: under his tongue are evil purposes and dark thoughts.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and oppression; under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.
King James Version (1611)
His mouth is full of cursing, and deceit, and fraud: vnder his tongue is mischiefe and vanitie.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
His mouth is full of cursing, and of deceate, and of fraude: vnder his tongue is labour and mischiefe.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Whose mouth is full of cursing, and bitterness, and fraud: under his tongue are trouble and pain.
English Revised Version
His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and oppression: under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.
Update Bible Version
His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and oppression: Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.
Webster's Bible Translation
His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue [is] mischief and vanity.
New King James Version
His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and oppression; Under his tongue is trouble and iniquity.
New Living Translation
Their mouths are full of cursing, lies, and threats. Trouble and evil are on the tips of their tongues.
New Life Bible
With his mouth he swears and lies. He makes it hard for other people. Trouble and sin are under his tongue.
New Revised Standard
Their mouths are filled with cursing and deceit and oppression; under their tongues are mischief and iniquity.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
With cursing, his mouth is full, and with deceptions and oppression, Under his tongue, are trouble and mischief:
Douay-Rheims Bible
(9-28) His mouth is full of cursing, and of bitterness, and of deceit: under his tongue are labour and sorrow.
Revised Standard Version
His mouth is filled with cursing and deceit and oppression; under his tongue are mischief and iniquity.
Young's Literal Translation
Of oaths his mouth is full, And deceits, and fraud: Under his tongue [is] perverseness and iniquity,
THE MESSAGE
They carry a mouthful of hexes, their tongues spit venom like adders. They hide behind ordinary people, then pounce on their victims.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
His mouth is full of curses and deceit and oppression; Under his tongue is mischief and wickedness.

Contextual Overview

1 Lord, whi hast thou go fer awei? thou dispisist `in couenable tymes in tribulacioun. 2 While the wickid is proud, the pore man is brent; thei ben taken in the counsels, bi whiche thei thenken. 3 Forwhi the synnere is preisid in the desiris of his soule; and the wickid is blessid. 4 The synnere `wraththide the Lord; vp the multitude of his ire he schal not seke. 5 God is not in his siyt; hise weies ben defoulid in al tyme. God, thi domes ben takun awei fro his face; he schal be lord of alle hise enemyes. 6 For he seide in his herte, Y schal not be moued, fro generacioun in to generacioun without yuel. 7 `Whos mouth is ful of cursyng, and of bitternesse, and of gyle; trauel and sorewe is vndur his tunge. 8 He sittith in aspies with ryche men in priuytees; to sle the innocent man. 9 Hise iyen biholden on a pore man; he settith aspies in hid place, as a lioun in his denne. He settith aspies, for to rauysche a pore man; for to rauysche a pore man, while he drawith the pore man. 10 In his snare he schal make meke the pore man; he schal bowe hym silf, and schal falle doun, whanne he hath be lord of pore men.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

full: Psalms 59:12, Psalms 62:4, Romans 3:14

and deceit: Heb. deceits, Psalms 5:9, Psalms 7:14, Psalms 36:3, Psalms 52:4, Psalms 55:21, Psalms 58:3, Psalms 64:3, Isaiah 59:4, Jeremiah 9:3, Jeremiah 9:6, Romans 3:13

under: Job 20:12

mischief: Psalms 7:14, Psalms 140:9, Job 15:35, Matthew 12:34, James 3:6-8

vanity: or, iniquity, Psalms 12:2, Psalms 41:6, Psalms 144:8, Psalms 144:11, Proverbs 21:6, Proverbs 30:8

Reciprocal: Numbers 35:20 - by laying Psalms 28:3 - mischief Psalms 50:19 - tongue Psalms 52:1 - mischief Proverbs 6:12 - walketh Proverbs 24:2 - General Isaiah 32:7 - deviseth Matthew 15:11 - but James 3:9 - therewith curse

Cross-References

Genesis 2:11
The name of the o ryuer is Fyson, thilke it is that cumpassith al the lond of Euilath, where gold cometh forth,
1 Kings 10:1
But also the queen of Saba, whanne the fame of Salomon was herd, cam in the name of the Lord to tempte hym in derk and douti questiouns.
Psalms 72:10
The kyngis of Tarsis and ilis schulen offre yiftis; the kyngis of Arabie and of Saba schulen brynge yiftis.
Isaiah 21:13
The birthun in Arabie. In the forest at euentid ye schulen slepe, in the pathis of Dodanym.
Ezekiel 27:15
The sones of Dedan weren thi marchauntis; many ilis the marchaundie of thin hond, chaungiden teeth of yuer, and of hebennus, in thi prijs.
Ezekiel 27:22
The silleris of Saba and of Rema, thei weren thi marchauntis, with alle the beste swete smellynge spices, and preciouse stoon, and gold, which thei settiden forth in thi marcat.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

His mouth is full of cursing,.... Or, "he has filled his mouth with cursing" e God and good men, his superiors, himself and others. The word signifies "an oath"; and may design either a profane oath, taking the name of God in vain; or an oath on a civil account, a false oath, taken with a design to defraud and deceive others, as follows, and intends perjury; and this, as applicable to antichrist, regards his mouth speaking great things and blasphemies against God, and uttering curses and anathemas against the saints, Revelation 13:5;

and deceit and fraud; such as flattery and lying, which are both used by him with an intention to impose upon and deceive. The apostle, in Romans 3:14; renders both these words by one, "bitterness"; which may be said of sin in general, which is a very bitter thing; though it is rolled as a sweet morsel in the mouth of a wicked man, yet in the issue it is bitterness to him: and it is applicable to sinful words, which are bitter in their effects to those against whom they are spoken, or who are deceived and imposed upon by them: and, as they refer to antichrist, may have respect to the lies in hypocrisy spoken by him, and to the deceitfulness of unrighteousness, by which he works upon those that perish, 1 Timothy 4:2;

under his tongue [is] mischief and vanity; alluding to serpents, who have little bags of poison under their teeth; see Psalms 140:3; Kimchi and Ben Melech observe, that the heart is under the tongue, being lower than it, and so denotes the wickedness which that is full of, and devises continually, and is latent in it until discovered; and is mischievous iniquity, injurious to God, and the honour of his law, and to fellow creatures; and especially to the saints, whose persons, characters, and estates, are aimed at; but in the issue it is all vanity, and a fruitless attempt, being blasted by God, and overruled for good to him; see Isaiah 54:17;

e אלה פיהו מלא.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

His mouth is full of cursing - Profaneness; blasphemy against God. In the former verse the writer had described the feelings of the “heart;” he now proceeds to specify the open acts of the wicked. The meaning is, that the wicked man, as here described, was one who was full of imprecation, swearing, execration; a “profane” man; a man who, whatever was his belief about God, would constantly call upon his name, and imprecate his wrath on himself or others. An atheist, strange as it may seem, is as likely to make a frequent use of the name of God, and to call upon Him, as other people; just as profane people, who have no belief in the Saviour, swear by Jesus Christ. This passage seems to be referred to by the apostle Paul in Romans 3:14, not as a direct quotation, as if the psalmist referred to the point which he was arguing, but as language which expressed the idea that the apostle wished to convey. See the note at that passage.

And deceit - Margin, as in Hebrew, “deceits.” The meaning is, that he was false and treacherous; and perhaps also that his treachery and fraud were accompanied with the solemn sanction of an oath, or an appeal to God, as is likely to be the case among fraudulent and dishonest people.

And fraud - The word used here - תך tôk - is now commonly supposed to mean rather “oppression or violence.” See Gesenius’ Lexicon. When this is attributed to his mouth, it means that what he says - what he requires - what he commands, is unjust, unreasonable, and oppressive.

Under his tongue - Perhaps alluding to the serpent, whose poison is concealed at the root of the fang or tooth, and therefore under the tongue. The meaning is, that beneath what the wicked say, though it seems to be harmless, as the tongue of the serpent does, yet there lies mischief and iniquity, as the poison is hidden beneath the serpent’s tongue.

Is mischief - The word used here means properly labor, toil; then trouble, vexation, sorrow. The meaning here seems to be that there lies under the tongue that which gives or causes distress; to wit, wrong-doing; injustice to others.

And vanity - Margin, iniquity. This expresses the idea in the original word. Whatever he says is evil, and is fitted to produce trouble and sorrow, as the concealed poison in the mouth of the serpent causes pain and death.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 10:7. His mouth is full of cursing, and deceit, and fraud — What a finished character! A blasphemer, a deceitful man, and a knave!


 
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