Bible verses about "backstabbers" | Brenton

^{9 (40:9)} For even the man of my peace, in whom I trusted, who ate my bread, lifted up his heel against me.

¹⁹ (OMITTED TEXT)

⁴ If he should draw back, my soul has no pleasure in him: but the just shall live by my faith.

²⁰ The lamp of him that reviles father or mother shall be put out, and his eyeballs shall see darkness.

^{10 (31:10)} Cursed is the man that does the works of the Lord carelessly, keeping back his sword from blood.

¹ Blessed is the man who has not walked in the counsel of the ungodly, and has not stood in the way of sinners, and has not sat in the seat of evil men. ² But his pleasure is in the law of the Lord; and in his law will he meditate day and night. ³ And he shall be as a tree planted by the brooks of waters, which shall yield its fruit in its season, and its leaf shall not fall off; and whatsoever he shall do shall be prospered. ⁴ Not so the ungodly; — not so: but rather as the chaff which the wind scatters away from the face of the earth. ⁵ Therefore the ungodly shall not rise in judgment, nor sinners in the counsel of the just. ⁶ For the Lord knows the way of the righteous; but the way of the ungodly shall perish.

²⁸ A perverse man spreads mischief, and will kindle a torch of deceit with mischiefs; and he separates friends.