Proverbs 11:9 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁹An hypocrite with his mouth destroyeth his neighbour: but through knowledge shall the just be delivered.

Proverbs 11:9 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 2:10-16
When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul; …
Proverbs 4:5-6
Get wisdom, get understanding: forget it not; neither decline from the words of my mouth. …
1 John 2:27
But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.
Job 8:13
So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite's hope shall perish:
2 Corinthians 11:13-15
For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. …

Topics

Conceit Consistency Deceit Deception Dishonesty Dissembling False Teachers Falsehood

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 9)

Here is, 1. Hypocrisy designing ill. It is not only the murderer with his sword, but the hypocrite with his mouth, that destroys his neighbour, decoying him into sin, or into mischief, by the specious pretences of kindness and good-will. Death and life are in the power of the tongue, but no tongue more fatal than the flattering tongue. 2. Honesty defeating the design and escaping the snare: Throug…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 9)

9. (Compare Psa 35:16; Da 11:32). The just is saved by superior discernment.