²⁰ The tongue of the just is as choice silver: the heart of the wicked is little worth.

¹⁸ There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.

³⁴ O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.

³⁵ A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things.

⁹ The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?

¹¹ A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.

¹² As an earring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, so is a wise reprover upon an obedient ear.

⁷ For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart is not with thee.

¹³ Righteous lips are the delight of kings; and they love him that speaketh right.

⁴ A wholesome tongue is a tree of life: but perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit.

¹⁹ My fruit is better than gold, yea, than fine gold; and my revenue than choice silver.

²¹ And the LORD smelled a sweet savor; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.

⁵ And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.