Job 30:11

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.

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.

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

He said, “Naked I came out of my mother’s womb, and naked will I return there. Yahweh gave, and Yahweh has taken away. Blessed be Yahweh’s name.”

A whip is for the horse, a bridle for the donkey, and a rod for the back of fools!

You renew your witnesses against me, and increase your indignation on me. Changes and warfare are with me.

They open their mouths wide against me, lions tearing prey and roaring.

Let them be desolate by reason of their shame that tell me, “Aha! Aha!”

He pours contempt on princes, and causes them to wander in a trackless waste.

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

who brings princes to nothing, who makes the judges of the earth meaningless.

All your enemies have opened their mouth wide against you. They hiss and gnash their teeth. They say, “We have swallowed her up. Certainly this is the day that we looked for. We have found it. We have seen it.”

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

who teaches us more than the animals of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?’

Let them be turned because of their shame who say, “Aha! Aha!”

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.

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.

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

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

Yahweh, truly I am your servant. I am your servant, the son of your servant girl. You have freed me from my chains.

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

Whoever loves correction loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid.

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.

I am Yahweh, and there is no one else. Besides me, there is no God. I will strengthen you, though you have not known me,

Whom do you mock? Against whom do you make a wide mouth and stick out your tongue? Aren’t you children of disobedience and offspring of falsehood,

“For my people are foolish. They don’t know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are skillful in doing evil, but they don’t know how to do good.”

He changes the times and the seasons. He removes kings, and sets up kings. He gives wisdom to the wise, and knowledge to those who have understanding.

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;

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.

If you refuse to let them go, behold, I will plague all your borders with frogs.

They laid it up until the morning, as Moses ordered, and it didn’t become foul, and there were no worms in it.

I went out full, and Yahweh has brought me home again empty. Why do you call me Naomi, since Yahweh has testified against me, and the Almighty has afflicted me?”

‘Surely I have seen yesterday the blood of Naboth, and the blood of his sons,’ says Yahweh; ‘and I will repay you in this plot of ground,’ says Yahweh. Now therefore take and cast him onto the plot of ground, according to Yahweh’s word.”

He loosens the bond of kings. He binds their waist with a belt.

He pours contempt on princes, and loosens the belt of the strong.

For you write bitter things against me, and make me inherit the iniquities of my youth:

For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty.

That you turn your spirit against God, and let such words go out of your mouth?

You have shriveled me up. This is a witness against me. My leanness rises up against me. It testifies to my face.

For the wicked boasts of his heart’s cravings. He blesses the greedy and condemns Yahweh.

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.

Yes, they opened their mouth wide against me. They said, “Aha! Aha! Our eye has seen it!”

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.”

Deliver me from all my transgressions. Don’t make me the reproach of the foolish.

These things I remember, and pour out my soul within me, how I used to go with the crowd, and led them to God’s house, with the voice of joy and praise, a multitude keeping a holy day.

For he has delivered me out of all trouble. My eye has seen triumph over my enemies.

For there is not a word on my tongue, but, behold, Yahweh, you know it altogether.

Inspired judgments are on the lips of the king. He shall not betray his mouth.

There is a way which seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.

Don’t allow your mouth to lead you into sin. Don’t protest before the messenger that this was a mistake. Why should God be angry at your voice, and destroy the work of your hands?

Bring no more vain offerings. Incense is an abomination to me. New moons, Sabbaths, and convocations: I can’t stand evil assemblies.

No one shall be weary nor stumble among them; no one shall slumber nor sleep, neither shall the belt of their waist be untied, nor the strap of their sandals be broken,

The Syrians in front, and the Philistines behind; and they will devour Israel with open mouth. For all this, his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

Righteousness will be the belt of his waist, and faithfulness the belt of his waist.

and I will clothe him with your robe, and strengthen him with your belt. I will commit your government into his hand; and he will be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah.

Yahweh of Armies has planned it, to stain the pride of all glory, to bring into contempt all the honorable of the earth.

As he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons struck him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Ararat. Esar Haddon his son reigned in his place.

“I have surely heard Ephraim grieving thus, ‘You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as an untrained calf. Turn me, and I will be turned; for you are Yahweh my God.

“Son of man, because Tyre has said against Jerusalem, ‘Aha! She is broken! She who was the gateway of the peoples has been returned to me. I will be replenished, now that she is laid waste;’

I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don’t fear me,” says Yahweh of Armies.

But they worship me in vain, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’

Immediately an angel of the Lord struck him, because he didn’t give God the glory. Then he was eaten by worms and died.

for sin, finding occasion through the commandment, deceived me, and through it killed me.

Let no one deceive himself. If anyone thinks that he is wise among you in this world, let him become a fool, that he may become wise.

by which also you are saved, if you hold firmly the word which I preached to you—unless you believed in vain.

If Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain, and your faith also is in vain.

But from those who were reputed to be important—whatever they were, it makes no difference to me; God doesn’t show partiality to man—they, I say, who were respected imparted nothing to me,

Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his might.

Stand therefore, having the utility belt of truth buckled around your waist, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness,

For there are also many unruly men, vain talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision,

For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

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.

But do you want to know, vain man, that faith apart from works is dead?

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.