Psalms Chapter 140 verse 11 Holy Bible
An evil speaker shall not be established in the earth: Evil shall hunt the violent man to overthrow him.
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Let not a man of evil tongue be safe on earth: let destruction overtake the violent man with blow on blow.
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Let not the man of [evil] tongue be established in the earth: evil shall hunt the man of violence to [his] ruin.
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Let not an evil speaker be established in the earth: evil shall hunt the violent man to overthrow him.
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An evil speaker won't be established in the earth. Evil will hunt the violent man to overthrow him.
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A talkative man is not established in the earth, One of violence -- evil hunteth to overflowing.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 11. - Let not an evil speaker be established in the earth; literally, a man of tongue shall not be established is the land - a man, i.e., of pretence and seeming, who talks grandly, but effects nothing. Such a one shall not obtain permanent establishment as a power in the land. Evil shall hunt the violent man to overthrow him; literally, to destructions - a plural of completeness.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(11) An evil speaker.--Literally, as in LXX. and Vulg., a man of tongue; (Comp. Ecclesiasticus 8:3; Job 11:2.) margin," man of lips." It is hardly possible to resist the suggestion that some particular person, noted for the loudness or violence of his speech, was intended.Evil shall hunt . . .--Comp. Proverbs 13:21 and Horace, Odes iii. 2, Conington's translation:"Though vengeance halt, she seldom leavesThe wretch whose flying step she hounds.'To overthrow.--The Hebrew is a noun, formed from a root meaning "to thrust," and literally means either to destruction or with hasty pursuit. Some render "with successive thrusts;" but this is hardly a hunting figure.
