THEOSISProverbs 17:4Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
The evil man obeyeth an unjust tongue: and the deceitful hearkeneth to lying lips.
מֵ֭רַע מַקְשִׁ֣יב עַל־שְׂפַת־אָ֑וֶן שֶׁ֥קֶר מֵ֝זִין עַל־לְשׁ֥וֹן הַוֺּֽת׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- 2 Tim 4:3For there shall be a time when they will not endure sound doctrine but, according to their own desires, they will heap to themselves teachers having itching ears:
- 2 Tim 4:4And will indeed turn away their hearing from the truth, but will be turned unto fables.
- 1 John 4:5They are of the world. Therefore of the world they speak: and the world heareth them.
- Prov 28:4They that forsake the law, praise the wicked man: they that keep it, are incensed against him.
- Isa 30:10Who say to the seers: See not: and to them that behold: Behold not for us those things that are right: speak unto us pleasant things, see errors for us.
- Jer 5:31The prophets prophesied falsehood, and the priests clapped their hands: and my people loved such things: what then shall be done in the end thereof?
- Rev 13:3And I saw one of his heads as it were slain to death: and his death's wound was healed. And all the earth was in admiration after the beast.
- Rev 13:8And all that dwell upon the earth adored him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb which was slain from the beginning of the world.