They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.
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Gill's Exposition
They speak vanity everyone with his neighbour,.... That which is false and a lie, either doctrinal or practical; what was not according to the word of God, and was vain and empty, frothy, filthy, and…
Barnes' Notes
They speak vanity - This is a statement of the “manner” in which the “godly” and the “faithful” fail, as stated in Psa 12:1. One of the ways was that there was a disregard of truth; that no confidence…
This psalm furnishes us with good thoughts for bad times, in which, though the prudent will keep silent (Amo 5:13) because a man may then be made an offender for a word, yet we may comfort ourselves…
Cambridge Bible
Hypocrisy and duplicity are universal. Men's words are vanity, or falsehood, hollow and unreal. Their flatteries come from -a double heart," lit. a heart and a heart, which thinks one thing and utters…
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