The mouth of the righteous brings forth wisdom, but the perverse tongue will be cut off.

There is one whose rash words are like sword thrusts, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.

Truthful lips endure forever, but a lying tongue is but for a moment.

The tongue of the wise commends knowledge, but the mouths of fools pour out folly.

A gentle tongue is a tree of life, but perverseness in it breaks the spirit.

The plans of the heart belong to man, but the answer of the tongue is from the Lord.

An evildoer listens to wicked lips, and a liar gives ear to a mischievous tongue.

A man of crooked heart does not discover good, and one with a dishonest tongue falls into calamity.

Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruits.

The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapor and a snare of death.

Whoever keeps his mouth and his tongue keeps himself out of trouble.

With patience a ruler may be persuaded, and a soft tongue will break a bone.

The north wind brings forth rain, and a backbiting tongue, angry looks.

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

Whoever rebukes a man will afterward find more favor than he who flatters with his tongue.

She opens her mouth with wisdom, and the teaching of kindness is on her tongue.

Your lips drip nectar, my bride; honey and milk are under your tongue; the fragrance of your garments is like the fragrance of Lebanon.

Therefore, as the tongue of fire devours the stubble, and as dry grass sinks down in the flame, so their root will be as rottenness, and their blossom go up like dust; for they have rejected the law of the Lord of hosts, and have despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

And the Lord will utterly destroy the tongue of the Sea of Egypt, and will wave his hand over the River with his scorching breath, and strike it into seven channels, and he will lead people across in sandals.

For by people of strange lips and with a foreign tongue the Lord will speak to this people,

Behold, the name of the Lord comes from afar, burning with his anger, and in thick rising smoke; his lips are full of fury, and his tongue is like a devouring fire;

The heart of the hasty will understand and know, and the tongue of the stammerers will hasten to speak distinctly.

You will see no more the insolent people, the people of an obscure speech that you cannot comprehend, stammering in a tongue that you cannot understand.

then shall the lame man leap like a deer, and the tongue of the mute sing for joy. For waters break forth in the wilderness, and streams in the desert;

When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue is parched with thirst, I the Lord will answer them; I the God of Israel will not forsake them.