¹⁸ There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.

²⁴ Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.

⁴ A wholesome tongue is a tree of life: but perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit.

⁶ And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.

⁷ For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind:

⁸ But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.

⁷ The lips of the wise disperse knowledge: but the heart of the foolish doeth not so.

⁴ My soul is among lions: and I lie even among them that are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.

² The tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

³³ And they that understand among the people shall instruct many: yet they shall fall by the sword, and by flame, by captivity, and by spoil, many days.

¹⁸ A man that beareth false witness against his neighbour is a maul, and a sword, and a sharp arrow.

¹⁷ A wicked messenger falleth into mischief: but a faithful ambassador is health.