¹² to deliver you from the way of evil,
    from the men who speak perverse things,

²⁴ Put away from yourself a perverse mouth.
    Put corrupt lips far from you.

⁸ All the words of my mouth are in righteousness.
    There is nothing crooked or perverse in them.

¹³ The fear of Yahweh is to hate evil.
    I hate pride, arrogance, the evil way, and the perverse mouth.

³¹ The mouth of the righteous produces wisdom,
    but the perverse tongue will be cut off.
³² The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable,
    but the mouth of the wicked is perverse.

³⁰ One who winks his eyes to plot perversities,
    one who compresses his lips, is bent on evil.

²⁰ One who has a perverse heart doesn’t find prosperity,
    and one who has a deceitful tongue falls into trouble.

¹³ Keep your tongue from evil,
    and your lips from speaking lies.