Job 15:13

Set a watch, Yahweh, before my mouth. Keep the door of my lips.

Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but only what is good for building others up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear.

For, “He who would love life and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit.

“With God is wisdom and might. He has counsel and understanding.

You have wearied Yahweh with your words. Yet you say, ‘How have we wearied him?’ In that you say, ‘Everyone who does evil is good in Yahweh’s sight, and he delights in them;’ or ‘Where is the God of justice?’

who didn’t sin, “neither was deceit found in his mouth.”

You would call, and I would answer you. You would have a desire for the work of your hands.

“Why do the wicked live, become old, yes, and grow mighty in power?

Yahweh will fulfill that which concerns me. Your loving kindness, Yahweh, endures forever. Don’t forsake the works of your own hands.

Put away from yourself a perverse mouth. Put corrupt lips far from you.

But now, Yahweh, you are our Father. We are the clay and you our potter. We all are the work of your hand.

You are righteous, Yahweh, when I contend with you; yet I would like to reason the cause with you. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why are they all at ease who deal very treacherously?

But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.

For we all stumble in many things. Anyone who doesn’t stumble in word is a perfect person, able to bridle the whole body also.

The earth is given into the hand of the wicked. He covers the faces of its judges. If not he, then who is it?

Yet he filled their houses with good things, but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

“Behold, God is mighty, and doesn’t despise anyone. He is mighty in strength of understanding.

We can’t reach the Almighty. He is exalted in power. In justice and great righteousness, he will not oppress.

though the wicked spring up as the grass, and all the evildoers flourish, they will be destroyed forever.

The mouth of the righteous produces wisdom, but the perverse tongue will be cut off.

Better is the poor who walks in his integrity than he who is perverse in his lips and is a fool.

I have laid a snare for you, and you are also taken, Babylon, and you weren’t aware. You are found, and also caught, because you have fought against Yahweh.

Be careful therefore how you hear. For whoever has, to him will be given; and whoever doesn’t have, from him will be taken away even that which he thinks he has.”

Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.

nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not appropriate, but rather giving of thanks.

Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.

Be careful, lest your heart be deceived, and you turn away to serve other gods and worship them;

If it is a matter of strength, behold, he is mighty! If of justice, ‘Who,’ says he, ‘will summon me?’

“ ‘Your hands have framed me and fashioned me altogether, yet you destroy me.

None is so fierce that he dare stir him up. Who then is he who can stand before me?

I said, “I will watch my ways, so that I don’t sin with my tongue. I will keep my mouth with a bridle while the wicked is before me.”

Destructive forces are within her. Threats and lies don’t depart from her streets.

In the multitude of words there is no lack of disobedience, but he who restrains his lips does wisely.

The tongue of the wise commends knowledge, but the mouth of fools gush out folly.

He who is often rebuked and stiffens his neck will be destroyed suddenly, with no remedy.

Yahweh is slow to anger, and great in power, and will by no means leave the guilty unpunished. Yahweh has his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.

For if a man thinks himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;

Indeed, we put bits into the horses’ mouths so that they may obey us, and we guide their whole body.

Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking,

If anyone speaks, let it be as it were the very words of God. If anyone serves, let it be as of the strength which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.

Pharaoh said, “Who is Yahweh, that I should listen to his voice to let Israel go? I don’t know Yahweh, and moreover I will not let Israel go.”

because you still exalt yourself against my people, that you won’t let them go.

Why then do you harden your hearts as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their hearts? When he had worked wonderfully among them, didn’t they let the people go, and they departed?

Behold, God is with us at our head, and his priests with the trumpets of alarm to sound an alarm against you. Children of Israel, don’t fight against Yahweh, the God of your fathers; for you will not prosper.”

God who is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who has hardened himself against him and prospered?

Is it good to you that you should oppress, that you should despise the work of your hands, and smile on the counsel of the wicked?

that he would show you the secrets of wisdom! For true wisdom has two sides. Know therefore that God exacts of you less than your iniquity deserves.

If he passes by, or confines, or convenes a court, then who can oppose him?

The tents of robbers prosper. Those who provoke God are secure, who carry their god in their hands.

“As God lives, who has taken away my right, the Almighty, who has made my soul bitter

You have turned to be cruel to me. With the might of your hand you persecute me.

Didn’t he who made me in the womb make him? Didn’t one fashion us in the womb?

Then the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel, the Buzite, of the family of Ram, was kindled against Job. His wrath was kindled because he justified himself rather than God.

The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.

He doesn’t respect the persons of princes, nor respect the rich more than the poor; for they all are the work of his hands.

Will you even annul my judgment? Will you condemn me, that you may be justified?

Or do you have an arm like God? Can you thunder with a voice like him?

Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand on the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers;

He says in his heart, “God has forgotten. He hides his face. He will never see it.”

Don’t be like the horse, or like the mule, which have no understanding, who are controlled by bit and bridle, or else they will not come near to you.

Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking lies.

He rules by his might forever. His eyes watch the nations. Don’t let the rebellious rise up against him.

The wicked are overthrown, and are no more, but the house of the righteous shall stand.

Truth’s lips will be established forever, but a lying tongue is only momentary.

Lying lips are an abomination to Yahweh, but those who do the truth are his delight.

He who guards his mouth guards his soul. One who opens wide his lips comes to ruin.

A false witness shall not be unpunished. He who utters lies shall perish.

Whoever guards his mouth and his tongue keeps his soul from troubles.

Blessed is the man who always fears; but one who hardens his heart falls into trouble.

who say, “Let him make haste, let him hasten his work, that we may see it; let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw near and come, that we may know it!”

Whom have you defied and blasphemed? Against whom have you exalted your voice and lifted up your eyes on high? Against the Holy One of Israel.

For he said, “Surely, they are my people, children who will not deal falsely;” so he became their Savior.

Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? No, they were not at all ashamed. They couldn’t blush. Therefore they will fall among those who fall. In the time of their visitation they will be cast down, says Yahweh.

“Make him drunken; for he magnified himself against Yahweh. Moab will wallow in his vomit, and he also will be in derision.

“ ‘therefore the Lord Yahweh says: “Because you have set your heart as the heart of God,

All the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing; and he does according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth; and no one can stop his hand, or ask him, “What are you doing?”

Yes, they made their hearts as hard as flint, lest they might hear the law, and the words which Yahweh of Armies had sent by his Spirit by the former prophets. Therefore great wrath came from Yahweh of Armies.

Yet you say, ‘Why?’ Because Yahweh has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously, though she is your companion, and the wife of your covenant.

Will a man rob God? Yet you rob me! But you say, ‘How have we robbed you?’ In tithes and offerings.

“Your words have been stout against me,” says Yahweh. “Yet you say, ‘What have we spoken against you?’

But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed ask him who formed it, “Why did you make me like this?”

Don’t lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old man with his doings,

he who opposes and exalts himself against all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, setting himself up as God.

If anyone among you thinks himself to be religious while he doesn’t bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart, this man’s religion is worthless.