You give your mouth to evil, and your tongue frames deceit.
You give your mouth to evil, and your tongue frames deceit.
Thou givest thy mouth to evil, And thy tongue frameth deceit.
You have given your mouth to evil, your tongue to words of deceit.
Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit.
"You give your mouth to evil. Your tongue frames deceit.
Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit.
Thou givest thy mouth to evil - Margin, as in Hebrew, "thou sendest." That is, they gave it up to evil; they employed it in evil: in falsehood, malice, deceit, slander, deception, detraction.
And thy tongue frameth deceit - The word rendered "frameth" means properly to bind, to fasten; and then, to contrive, to frame. The meaning is, that it was employed in the work of deceit; that is, it was employed in devising and executing purposes of fraud and falsehood.