¹² He that despiseth his neighbor, is destitute of wisdom: but a man of understanding will ^[a]keep silence.

^18 (A)There is that speaketh words like the prickings of ^[a]a sword: but the tongue of wise men is health.

⁴ A wholesome tongue is as a tree of life: but the frowardness thereof is the breaking of the mind.

²⁷ A wicked man diggeth up evil, and in his lips is like ^[a]burning fire.

²³ As the Northwind driveth away the rain, so doth an angry countenance the slandering tongue.

² As the sparrow by flying, and the swallow by flying escape, so the curse that is causeless, shall not come.