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

¹⁸ She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: And happy is every one that retaineth her.

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

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

³ If any man teacheth a different doctrine, and consenteth not to sound words, `even' the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness;

² But unto you that fear my name shall the sun of righteousness arise with healing in its wings; and ye shall go forth, and gambol as calves of the stall.

¹⁴ The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; But a broken spirit who can bear?

⁸ The words of a whisperer are as dainty morsels, And they go down into the innermost parts.

²² For I am poor and needy, And my heart is wounded within me.

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

³ Thou lovest evil more than good, And lying rather than to speak righteousness. Selah

⁴ Thou lovest all devouring words, thou deceitful tongue.

²² And Jehovah God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil; and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever-

²³ therefore Jehovah God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.

²⁴ So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden the Cherubim, and the flame of a sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.

⁷ He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith to the churches. To him that overcometh, to him will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the Paradise of God.

²² The words of a whisperer are as dainty morsels, And they go down into the innermost parts.