Quotes About Deception

But now, please look at me. Would I lie to your face?

“How long will you go on saying such things? The words of your mouth are a blustering wind.

The tents of robbers are safe, and those who provoke God are secure—those who carry their god in their hands.

True wisdom and power belong to Him. The deceived and the deceiver are His.

Would it be well when He examined you? Could you deceive Him like a man?

“Does a wise man answer with empty counsel or fill his belly with the hot east wind?

For your iniquity instructs your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty.

Let him not deceive himself with trust in emptiness, for emptiness will be his reward.

For his own feet lead him into a net, and he wanders into its mesh.

A trap seizes his heel; a snare grips him.

A noose is hidden in the ground, and a trap lies in his path.

Though evil is sweet in his mouth and he conceals it under his tongue,

yet in his stomach his food sours into the venom of cobras within him.

He will suck the poison of cobras; the fangs of a viper will kill him.

Behold, I know your thoughts full well, the schemes by which you would wrong me.

So how can you comfort me with empty words? For your answers remain full of falsehood.”

The eye of the adulterer watches for twilight. Thinking, ëNo eye will see me,í he covers his face.

If this is not so, then who can prove me a liar and reduce my words to nothing?”

He keeps company with evildoers and walks with wicked men.

Be careful that no one lures you with riches; do not let a large bribe lead you astray.

How long, O men, will my honor be maligned? How long will you love vanity and seek after lies? Selah

Behold, the wicked man travails with evil; he conceives trouble and births falsehood.

He has dug a hole and hollowed it out; he has fallen into a pit of his own making.

The nations have fallen into a pit of their making; their feet are caught in the net they have hidden.