¹⁸ There is that speaketh rashly like the piercings of a sword; But the tongue of the wise is health.

²⁴ Pleasant words are `as' a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.

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

⁶ And the tongue is a fire: the world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the wheel of nature, and is set on fire by hell.

⁷ For every kind of beasts and birds, of creeping things and things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed by mankind.

⁸ But the tongue can no man tame; `it is' a restless evil, `it is' full of deadly poison.

⁷ The lips of the wise disperse knowledge; But the heart of the foolish `doeth' not so.

⁴ A gentle tongue is a tree of life; But perverseness therein is a breaking of the spirit.

¹⁷ A wicked messenger falleth into evil; But a faithful ambassador is health.

²² For they are life unto those that find them, And health to all their flesh.

⁷ Behold, they belch out with their mouth; Swords are in their lips: For who, `say they', doth hear?

² in the midst of the street thereof. And on this side of the river and on that was the tree of life, bearing twelve `manner of' fruits, yielding its fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.

¹⁶ And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth proceeded a sharp two-edged sword: and his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength.

³³ And they that are wise 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 neighbor Is a maul, and a sword, and a sharp arrow.

²⁰ The tongue of the righteous is `as' choice silver: The heart of the wicked is little worth.

²¹ The lips of the righteous feed many; But the foolish die for lack of understanding.

³ Who have whet their tongue like a sword, And have aimed their arrows, even bitter words,

² Thy tongue deviseth very wickedness, Like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.