Job 6:25

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.

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

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

The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life. He who is wise wins souls.

An evil man is trapped by sinfulness of lips, but the righteous shall come out of trouble.

Joy comes to a man with the reply of his mouth. How good is a word at the right time!

Even a fool, when he keeps silent, is counted wise. When he shuts his lips, he is thought to be discerning.

I create the fruit of the lips: Peace, peace, to him who is far off and to him who is near,” says Yahweh; “and I will heal them.”

For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who are indeed escaping from those who live in error;

Saul knew David’s voice, and said, “Is this your voice, my son David?” David said, “It is my voice, my lord, O king.”

Reproach has broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness. I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; for comforters, but I found none.

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

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.

to the one a stench from death to death, to the other a sweet aroma from life to life. Who is sufficient for these things?

It is no great thing therefore if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works.

Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

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.

Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.

The words of a gossip are like dainty morsels: they go down into a person’s innermost parts.

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

The Preacher sought to find out acceptable words, and that which was written blamelessly, words of truth.

The Lord Yahweh has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with words him who is weary. He awakens morning by morning, he awakens my ear to hear as those who are taught.

So the tongue is also a little member, and boasts great things. See how a small fire can spread to a large forest!

Every offering of your meal offering you shall season with salt. You shall not allow the salt of the covenant of your God to be lacking from your meal offering. With all your offerings you shall offer salt.

You will be hidden from the scourge of the tongue, neither will you be afraid of destruction when it comes.

If you were pure and upright, surely now he would awaken for you, and make the habitation of your righteousness prosperous.

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

But you are forgers of lies. You are all physicians of no value.

“Be silent! Leave me alone, that I may speak. Let come on me what will.

May Yahweh cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that boasts,

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

For they are life to those who find them, and health to their whole body.

The tongue of the righteous is like choice silver. The heart of the wicked is of little worth.

Anxiety in a man’s heart weighs it down, but a kind word makes it glad.

A wicked messenger falls into trouble, but a trustworthy envoy gains healing.

A gentle tongue is a tree of life, but deceit in it crushes the spirit.

The lips of the wise spread knowledge; not so with the heart of fools.

For as a dream comes with a multitude of cares, so a fool’s speech with a multitude of words.

Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap according to kindness. Break up your fallow ground; for it is time to seek Yahweh, until he comes and rains righteousness on you.

Salt is good, but if the salt has lost its saltiness, with what will you season it? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another.”

Therefore lift up the hands that hang down and the feeble knees,

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

accuses her of shameful things, gives her a bad name, and says, “I took this woman, and when I came near to her, I didn’t find in her the tokens of virginity;”

It came to pass, when David had finished speaking these words to Saul, that Saul said, “Is that your voice, my son David?” Saul lifted up his voice, and wept.

At noon, Elijah mocked them, and said, “Cry aloud; for he is a god. Either he is deep in thought, or he has gone somewhere, or he is on a journey, or perhaps he sleeps and must be awakened.”

Your words have supported him who was falling, You have made firm the feeble knees.

Can that which has no flavor be eaten without salt? Or is there any taste in the white of an egg?

Is my strength the strength of stones? Or is my flesh of bronze?

Now therefore be pleased to look at me, for surely I will not lie to your face.

“No doubt, but you are the people, and wisdom will die with you.

Oh that you would be completely silent! Then you would be wise.

“Should a wise man answer with vain knowledge, and fill himself with the east wind?

“I have heard many such things. You are all miserable comforters!

“How long will you torment me, and crush me with words?

So how can you comfort me with nonsense, because in your answers there remains only falsehood?”

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

If it isn’t so now, who will prove me a liar, and make my speech worth nothing?”

“How have you helped him who is without power! How have you saved the arm that has no strength!

surely my lips will not speak unrighteousness, neither will my tongue utter deceit.

Far be it from me that I should justify you. Until I die I will not put away my integrity from me.

So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.

Also his wrath was kindled against his three friends, because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job.

Yes, I gave you my full attention, but there was no one who convinced Job, or who answered his words, among you.

It was so, that after Yahweh had spoken these words to Job, Yahweh said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My wrath is kindled against you, and against your two friends; for you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has.

As with a sword in my bones, my adversaries reproach me, while they continually ask me, “Where is your God?”

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

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

Don’t reject me in my old age. Don’t forsake me when my strength fails.

They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent. Viper’s poison is under their lips.

The lips of the righteous feed many, but the foolish die for lack of understanding.

The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable, but the mouth of the wicked is perverse.

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

Death and life are in the power of the tongue; those who love it will eat its fruit.

An honest answer is like a kiss on the lips.

A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in settings of silver.

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

There is a generation whose teeth are like swords, and their jaws like knives, to devour the poor from the earth, and the needy from among men.

She opens her mouth with wisdom. Kind instruction is on her tongue.

The words of a wise man’s mouth are gracious; but a fool is swallowed by his own lips.

Who did he take counsel with, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of justice, and taught him knowledge, and showed him the way of understanding?

“Those who are wise among the people will instruct many; yet they will fall by the sword and by flame, by captivity and by plunder, many days.

But if you had known what this means, ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ you wouldn’t have condemned the guiltless.

For we have found this man to be a plague, an instigator of insurrections among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes.

Nor can they prove to you the things of which they now accuse me.

Also, do not present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.