Job 15:5

Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it is the wellspring of life.

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.

You offspring of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.

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

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.

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

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

He who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, from within him will flow rivers of living water.”

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

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to the Lord.

“After all that has come on us for our evil deeds, and for our great guilt, since you, our God, have punished us less than our iniquities deserve, and have given us such a remnant,

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

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;

Don’t draw me away with the wicked, with the workers of iniquity who speak peace with their neighbors, but mischief is in their hearts.

For the sin of their mouth, and the words of their lips, let them be caught in their pride, for the curses and lies which they utter.

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

There is one who speaks rashly like the piercing of a sword, but the tongue of the wise heals.

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?

Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? Then may you also do good, who are accustomed to do evil.

“For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel. After those days,” says the Lord; “I will put my laws into their mind, I will also write them on their heart. I will be their God, and they will be my people.

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

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.

I have not sat with deceitful men, neither will I go in with hypocrites.

When you saw a thief, you consented with him, and have participated with adulterers.

Let them vanish like water that flows away. When they draw the bow, let their arrows be made blunt.

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.

One who walks with wise men grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.

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

“They bend their tongue, as their bow, for falsehood. They have grown strong in the land, but not for truth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they don’t know me,” says 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! “Evil companionships corrupt good morals.”

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.

speaking to one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs; singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;

The archers have severely grieved him, shot at him, and persecuted him:

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

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

I will answer you, and your companions with you.

Therefore men revere him. He doesn’t regard any who are wise of heart.”

For, behold, the wicked bend their bows. They set their arrows on the strings, that they may shoot in darkness at the upright in heart.

Everyone lies to his neighbor. They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart.

His mouth was smooth as butter, but his heart was war. His words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords.

My soul is among lions. I lie among those who are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.

Behold, they spew with their mouth. Swords are in their lips, “For”, they say, “who hears us?”

What will be given to you, and what will be done more to you, you deceitful tongue?

The proud have hidden a snare for me, they have spread the cords of a net by the path. They have set traps for me.

My son, don’t walk on the path with them. Keep your foot from their path,

to deliver you from the way of evil, from the men who speak perverse things,

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

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

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

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

A man who gives false testimony against his neighbor is like a club, a sword, or a sharp arrow.

Friends deceive each other, and will not speak the truth. They have taught their tongue to speak lies. They weary themselves commiting iniquity.

Then they said, “Come! Let’s devise plans against Jeremiah; for the law won’t perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let’s strike him with the tongue, and let’s not give heed to any of his words.”

She is weary with toil; yet her great rust, rust by fire, doesn’t leave her.

Her rich men are full of violence, her inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their speech.

He has shown strength with his arm. He has scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.

For no one does anything in secret while he seeks to be known openly. If you do these things, reveal yourself to the world.”

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, “He has taken the wise in their craftiness.”

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

To me, the very least of all saints, was this grace given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,

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.

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.

to execute judgment on all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their works of ungodliness which they have done in an ungodly way, and of all the hard things which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.”

He said, “Are you really my son Esau?” He said, “I am.”

Please go make yet more sure, and know and see his place where his haunt is, and who has seen him there; for I have been told that he is very cunning.

So when Ahijah heard the sound of her feet as she came in at the door, he said, “Come in, Jeroboam’s wife! Why do you pretend to be another? For I am sent to you with heavy news.

He takes the wise in their own craftiness; the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong.

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.

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

Have you heard the secret counsel of God? Do you limit wisdom to yourself?

Isn’t your wickedness great? Neither is there any end to your iniquities.

“Even today my complaint is rebellious. His hand is heavy in spite of my groaning.

That path no bird of prey knows, neither has the falcon’s eye seen it.

“If there is beside him an angel, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to show to man what is right for him;

Who goes in company with the workers of iniquity, and walks with wicked men?

For he doesn’t need to consider a man further, that he should go before God in judgment.

“But you are full of the judgment of the wicked. Judgment and justice take hold of you.

who sharpen their tongue like a sword, and aim their arrows, deadly words,

He has not dealt with us according to our sins, nor repaid us for our iniquities.

That which is crooked can’t be made straight; and that which is lacking can’t be counted.

therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvelous work among this people, even a marvelous work and a wonder; and the wisdom of their wise men will perish, and the understanding of their prudent men will be hidden.”

Yet he also is wise, and will bring disaster, and will not call back his words, but will arise against the house of the evildoers, and against the help of those who work iniquity.

Their tongue is a deadly arrow. It speaks deceit. One speaks peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in his heart, he waits to ambush him.

They answered Jesus, “We don’t know.” Jesus said to them, “Neither do I tell you by what authority I do these things.”

The good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings out that which is good, and the evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings out that which is evil, for out of the abundance of the heart, his mouth speaks.

He spoke a parable to them, saying, “The ground of a certain rich man produced abundantly.

And the rest of the Jews joined him in his hypocrisy, so that even Barnabas was carried away with their hypocrisy.

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.