28 “Do not blaspheme God[a](A) or curse(B) the ruler of your people.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 22:28 Or Do not revile the judges

28 Thou shalt not revile the gods, nor curse the ruler of thy people.

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18 Even the little boys(A) scorn me;
    when I appear, they ridicule me.(B)

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18 Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me.

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His mouth is full(A) of lies and threats;(B)
    trouble and evil are under his tongue.(C)

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His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.

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He lies in wait(A) near the villages;
    from ambush he murders the innocent.(B)
His eyes watch in secret for his victims;

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He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor.

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May the Lord silence all flattering lips(A)
    and every boastful tongue—(B)

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The Lord shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud things:

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those who say,
    “By our tongues we will prevail;(A)
    our own lips will defend us—who is lord over us?”

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

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13 keep your tongue(A) from evil
    and your lips from telling lies.(B)

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13 Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.

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