Their tongue [is as] an arrow shot out; it speaketh deceit: [one] speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth, but in heart he layeth his wait.
KJV
Hebrew original
Louis Segond 1910
Leur langue est un trait meurtrier, Ils ne disent que des mensonges; De la bouche ils parlent de paix à leur prochain, Et au fond du coeur ils lui dressent des pièges.
KJV
Their tongue [is as] an arrow shot out; it speaketh deceit: [one] speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth, but in heart he layeth his wait.
Various
Patrologia Latina Vol. 136 (Migne)
mplo sugillans, juxta illud: In ore suo pacem cum amico loquitur, et in occulto ponit ei insidias (Jerem. IX, 8) . Et dicentes, Pax, pax, cum non esset pax (Jerem. VI, 14) ; et: Sub lingua ejus labor et dolor, sedet in insidiis cum divitibus in occultis, ut interficiat innocent…
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