²⁰ He that hath a wayward heart findeth no good; And he that hath a perverse tongue falleth into mischief.

⁶ A fool's lips enter into contention, And his mouth calleth for stripes.

⁷ A fool's mouth is his destruction, And his lips are the snare of his soul.

³¹ The mouth of the righteous bringeth forth wisdom; But the perverse tongue shall be cut off.

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.

¹² The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.

¹⁴ Wise men lay up knowledge; But the mouth of the foolish is a present destruction.

¹⁰ He that winketh with the eye causeth sorrow; But a prating fool shall fall.

¹³ The fear of Jehovah is to hate evil: Pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, And the perverse mouth, do I hate.

¹² A worthless person, a man of iniquity, Is he that walketh with a perverse mouth;

¹³ That winketh with his eyes, that speaketh with his feet, That maketh signs with his fingers;

¹⁴ In whose heart is perverseness, Who deviseth evil continually, Who soweth discord.

¹⁵ Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; On a sudden shall he be broken, and that without remedy.

³² For the perverse is an abomination to Jehovah; But his friendship is with the upright.

²⁶ With the pure thou wilt show thyself pure; And with the perverse thou wilt show thyself froward.