An hypocrite with his mouth destroyeth his neighbour: but through knowledge shall the just be delivered.
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Gill's Exposition
An hypocrite with his mouth destroyeth his neighbour,.... Deceives him with his flatteries and lies, and draws him into destructive schemes and practices; or "corrupts" him, as the word (i) signifies,…
Barnes' Notes
Through knowledge - Better, By the knowledge of the just, shall they (i. e., the neighbors) be delivered.
Matthew Henry
Here is, 1. Hypocrisy designing ill. It is not only the murderer with his sword, but the hypocrite with his mouth, that destroys his neighbour, decoying him into sin, or into mischief, by the specious…
Cambridge Bible
be delivered i.e. from the destruction wrought by the "mouth of the hypocrite, (or godless man R.V.)". His knowledge will enable him to see and avoid the snare (παγὶς, LXX.).
Some, however, would…
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