Psalms 12:4
They say, “With our tongues we will prevail. We own our lips—who can be our master?”
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips are our own: who is lord over us?
In Context
3May the LORD cut off all flattering lips and every boastful tongue.
Cross References
Genesis 3:5“For God knows that in the day you eat of it, your eyes will be opened and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
Job 21:14Yet they say to God: ‘Leave us alone! For we have no desire to know Your ways.
Proverbs 10:31The mouth of the righteous brings forth wisdom, but a perverse tongue will be cut out.
Jeremiah 18:18Then some said, “Come, let us make plans against Jeremiah, for the law will never be lost to the priest, nor counsel to the wise, nor an oracle to the prophet. Come, let us denounce him and pay no heed to any of his words.”
2 Thessalonians 2:4He will oppose and exalt himself above every so-called god or object of worship. So he will seat himself in the temple of God, proclaiming himself to be God.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 12:2-8
Complaints of the Times. 1 Help, Lord ; for the godly man ceaseth; for the faithful fail from among the children of men. 2 They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak. 3 The Lord shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud things: 4 Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips are our own: who is lord over us? 5 For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the Lord ; I will… Read the whole commentary →