³ Ye multiply not -- ye speak haughtily -- The old saying goeth out from your mouth, For a God of knowledge [is] Jehovah, And by Him actions are weighed.

⁵ Turn unto me, and be astonished, And put hand to mouth.

⁴ Lo, I have been vile, What do I return to Thee? My hand I have placed on my mouth.

¹³ And ye magnify yourselves against Me with your mouth, And have made abundant against Me your words, I -- I have heard.

¹⁶ See do nations, and they are ashamed of all their might, They lay a hand on the mouth, their ears are deaf.

¹² and whoever shall exalt himself shall be humbled, and whoever shall humble himself shall be exalted.

²⁹ Let no corrupt word out of your mouth go forth, but what is good unto the needful building up, that it may give grace to the hearers;

⁸ but now put off, even ye, the whole -- anger, wrath, malice, evil-speaking, filthy talking -- out of your mouth.

⁶ be humbled, then, under the powerful hand of God, that you He may exalt in good time,