Psalms 12:4 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁴Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips are our own: who is lord over us?

Psalms 12:4 —

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

James 3:5-6
Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth! …
Exodus 5:2
And Pharaoh said, Who is the LORD, that I should obey his voice to let Israel go? I know not the LORD, neither will I let Israel go.
2 Thessalonians 2:4
Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
Job 21:14-15
Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways. …
Jeremiah 18:18
Then said they, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.

Topics

Ambition Arrogance Conceit Haughtiness Heart Impenitence Infidelity Materialism

Commentary

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

(vv. 1-8)

This psalm furnishes us with good thoughts for bad times, in which, though the prudent will keep silent (Amos 5:13) because a man may then be made an offender for a word, yet we may comfort ourselves with such suitable meditations and prayers as are here got ready to our hand. I. Let us see here what it is that makes the times bad, and when they may be said to be so. Ask the children of this world…

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

(vv. 4)

3-4. Boasting (Da 7:25) is, like flattery, a species of lying. lips, and ... tongue--for persons.