12Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue;
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How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water?
His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.
Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.
As he loved cursing, so let it come unto him: as he delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from him. …
Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 10-22)The instances here given of the miserable condition of the wicked man in this world are expressed with great fulness and fluency of language, and the same thing returned to again and repeated in other words. Let us therefore reduce the particulars to their proper heads, and observe, I. What his wickedness is for which he is punished. 1. The lusts of the flesh, here called the sins of his youth (Jo…
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