THEOSISProverbs 12:13Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
For the sins of the lips ruin draweth nigh to the evil man: but the just shall escape out of distress.
בְּפֶ֣שַׁע שְׂ֭פָתַיִם מוֹקֵ֣שׁ רָ֑ע וַיֵּצֵ֖א מִצָּרָ֣ה צַדִּֽיק׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Prov 21:23He that keepeth his mouth and his tongue, keepeth his soul from distress.
- Ps 64 (63):8
- Prov 11:8The just is delivered out of distress: and the wicked shall be given up for him.
- Dan 6:24And by the king's commandment, those men were brought that had accused Daniel: and they were cast into the lions' den, they and their children, and their wives: and they did not reach the bottom of the den, before the lions caught them, and broke all their bones in pieces.
- Prov 6:2Thou art ensnared with the words of thy mouth, and caught with thy own words.
- Prov 18:6The lips of a fool intermeddle with strife: and his mouth provoketh quarrels.
- Prov 18:7The mouth of a fool is his destruction: and his lips are the ruin of his soul.
- 2 Pet 2:9The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly from temptation, but to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be tormented: