New Revised Standard Version
A lying tongue hates its victims, and a flattering mouth works ruin.

Contemporary English Version
Watch out for anyone who tells lies and flatters--they are out to get you.

New American Bible
The lying tongue is its owner’s enemy, and the flattering mouth works ruin.

Douay-Rheims Bible
A deceitful tongue loveth not truth: and a slippery mouth worketh ruin.

A deceitful tongue loveth not truth: and a slippery mouth worketh ruin.

John 8:40,44-49 But now you seek to kill me, a man who have spoken the truth to you, which I have heard of God. This Abraham did not. . . .

John 10:32,33 Jesus answered them: Many good works I have shewed you from my Father. For which of those works do you stone me? . . .

John 15:22-24 If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have sin: but now they have no excuse for their sin. . . .

a flattering

Proverbs 6:24 Let not thy heart covet her beauty, be not caught with her winks:

Proverbs 7:5,21-23 For I looked out of the window of my house through the lattice, . . .

Proverbs 29:5 A man that speaketh to his friend with flattering and dissembling words, spreadeth a net for his feet.

Luke 20:20,21 And being upon the watch, they sent spies, who should feign themselves just, that they might take hold of him in his words, that they might deliver him up to the authority and power of the governor. . . .