that she may keep you from the strange and wicked woman, if she should assail you with flattering words.

So with much conversation she prevailed on him to go astray, and with the snares of her lips forced him from [the right path].

[This translation omits this verse.]

A weeping enemy promises all things with his lips, but in his heart he contrives deceit.

Though your enemy intreat you with a loud voice, consent not: for there are seven abominations in his heart.

A lying tongue hates the truth, and an unguarded mouth causes tumults.

And the woman said, If now the word of my lord the king be gracious,--[well]: for as an angel of God, so [is] my lord the king, to hear good and evil; and the Lord your God shall be with you.

And the king said, [Is] not the hand of Joab in all this matter with you? And the woman said to the king, [As] your soul lives, my lord, O king, there is no turning to the right hand or to the left from all that my lord the king has spoken; for your servant Joab himself charged me, and he put all these words in the mouth of your handmaid.

And the king said to Joab, Behold now, I have done to you according to this your word: go, bring back the young man Absalom.

And Joab arose, and went to Geshur, and brought Absalom to Jerusalem.

He shall promise mischief to [his] companions: but [their] eyes have failed for their children.

For there is no truth in their mouth; their heart is vain; their throat is an open tomb; with their tongues they have used deceit.

Everyone has spoken vanity to his neighbor: their lips are deceitful, they have spoken with a double heart.

For neither were we using flattering speech, as you know, nor covering up greed, God is [our] witness.

for nets are not spread for [the] birds without cause.

MEM. He has sent fire from His lofty habitation, He has brought it into my bones: He has spread a net for my feet, He has turned me back: He has made me desolate and mourning all the day.

Hear these things, you priests; and attend, O house of Israel; and hearken, O house of the king; for the controversy is with you, because you have been a snare in Mizpah, and as a net spread on Tabor,

And having watched [Him] closely, they sent spies who pretended to be righteous, that they might seize on His words, in order to deliver Him to the rule and the authority of the governor.

Then they asked Him, saying, "Teacher, we know that You say and teach rightly, and You do not show favoritism, but teach the way of God in truth:

For such [people] do not serve our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly, and through smooth speech and flattering, they deceive the hearts of the innocent.