SEV Biblia, Chapter 12:13
¶ El impío es enredado en la prevaricación de sus labios; mas el justo saldrá de la tribulación.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Proverbs 12:13
Verse 13. The wicked is snared by the transgression of his lips - A man who deals in lies and false oaths will sooner or later be found out to his own ruin. There is another proverb as true as this: A liar had need of a good memory; for as the truth is not in him, he says and unsays, and often contradicts himself.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 13. The wicked is snared by the transgression of [his] lips , etc.] A wicked man often brings himself into trouble by giving his tongue too great a liberty, and by making free with the characters of others; sometimes by treasonable speeches against his sovereign; sometimes by bearing false Witness, and by lies and perjuries, of which he is convicted in open court; and by calumnies, reproaches, detraction, and scandal raised by him, and cast on his neighbour, who sues him for these things: or “in the transgression of the lips [is] an evil snare”; or “the snare of an evil man” f336 ; by the wicked things they say they lay a snare for others, which the simple and incautious are taken in; so heretics ensnare men by their good words and fair speeches, and plausibility of their doctrines; so antichrist, by lies in hypocrisy, and by his deceivableness of unrighteousness; but the just shall come out of trouble ; or escape it; he escapes the snare that is laid for him, and so the trouble consequent upon it; a just man escapes trouble by not giving his tongue the liberty wicked men do; and when he by any means falls into trouble, he gets out of it again by giving good words to those in whose hands he is; and by his prayers and supplications unto God. The righteous are sometimes in trouble, and in such sort of trouble as others are not; by reason of their own corruptions, Satan’s temptations, the hidings of God’s face, as well as various outward afflictions; out of all which the Lord delivers them sooner or later, in life or in death, ( Psalm 34:19). Jarchi exemplifies this in the case of righteous Noah, who escaped the flood, when the world of the ungodly were destroyed by it, for the transgression of their lips, saying, as in ( Job 21:15), “what is the Almighty?” etc.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 13 - Many a man has paid dear in this world for the transgression of his lips.
Original Hebrew
בפשׁע 6588 שׂפתים 8193 מוקשׁ 4170 רע 7451 ויצא 3318 מצרה 6869 צדיק׃ 6662
