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Put away from yourself a perverse mouth. Put corrupt lips far from you.
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Speech Reveals the Heart
Commentators unanimously connect this verse to the preceding one about guarding the heart. They explain that corrupt speech is not an isolated flaw but an overflow of an unguarded heart. Albert Barnes states that a 'wayward mouth' is the natural result of failing to 'keep thy heart.' Therefore, the path to pure speech begins with tending to the inner life and seeking God's help to purify our thoughts and motives.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Speech turned from its true purpose, the wandering eye that leads on to evil, action hasty and inconsiderate, are the natural results when we do no…
19th Century
Anglican
A froward mouth. —Hebrew ‘iqqeshûth, literally, distortion, or twisting of the truth, not the same word as in Pr…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Put away from you a froward mouth A mouth speaking froward and perverse things; things contrary to right reason, to …
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