⁴ An evildoer listens to wicked lips;
    and a liar gives heed to a mischievous tongue.

²⁰ A man of crooked mind does not prosper,
    and one with a perverse tongue falls into calamity.

19 Better is a poor man who walks in his integrity
    than a man who is perverse in speech, and is a fool.

¹⁸ Like a madman who throws firebrands,
    arrows, and death,
¹⁹ is the man who deceives his neighbor
    and says, “I am only joking!”

²⁸ A lying tongue hates its victims,
    and a flattering mouth works ruin.