¹² To deliver you from the way of evil and the evil men, from men who speak perverse things and are liars,

²⁴ Put away from you false and dishonest speech, and willful and contrary talk put far from you.

¹² A worthless person, a wicked man, is he who goes about with a perverse (contrary, wayward) mouth.

⁸ All the words of my mouth are righteous (upright and in right standing with God); there is nothing contrary to truth or crooked in them.

¹³ The reverent fear and worshipful awe of the Lord [includes] the hatred of evil; pride, arrogance, the evil way, and perverted and twisted speech I hate.