⁸ But nobody can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.

¹³ "Their throat is an open tomb. With their tongues they have used deceit." "The poison of vipers is under their lips;"

³ They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent. Viper's poison is under their lips. Selah.

⁶ And the tongue is a fire. The world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by Gehenna.{Gehenna is a name that describes a burning Hell with rotting bodies and unclean things in it}

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

³ Who sharpen their tongue like a sword, And aim their arrows, deadly words,

⁴ To shoot innocent men from ambushes. They shoot at him suddenly and fearlessly.

¹¹ If the snake bites before it is charmed, then is there no profit for the charmer's tongue.

²¹ His mouth was smooth as butter, But his heart was war. His words were softer than oil, Yet they were drawn swords.

⁴ Their poison is like the poison of a snake; Like a deaf cobra that stops its ear,

⁷ Behold, they spew with their mouth. Swords are in their lips, "For," they say, "who hears us?"

⁹ The great dragon was thrown down, the old serpent, he who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.

³³ Their wine is the poison of serpents, The cruel venom of asps.