Psalms 12:4
Who said, 'By our tongue we do mightily: Our lips [are] our own; who [is] lord over us?'
Young's Literal Translation
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
3Jehovah doth cut off all lips of flattery, A tongue speaking great things,
Cross References
Genesis 3:5for God doth know that in the day of your eating of it — your eyes have been opened, and ye have been as God, knowing good and evil.'
Job 21:14And they say to God, 'Turn aside from us, And the knowledge of Thy ways We have not desired.
Proverbs 10:31The mouth of the righteous uttereth wisdom, And the tongue of frowardness is cut out.
Jeremiah 18:18And they say, Come, And we devise against Jeremiah devices, For law doth not perish from the priest, Nor counsel from the wise, Nor the word from the prophet, Come, and we smite him with the tongue, And we do not attend to any of his words.
2 Thessalonians 2:4who is opposing and is raising himself up above all called God or worshipped, so that he in the sanctuary of God as God hath sat down, shewing himself off that he is God — [the day doth not come].
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 →