²⁸ The heart of the righteous weighs answers, But the mouth of the wicked gushes out evil.

¹⁵ But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts; and always be ready to give an answer to everyone who asks you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, with humility and fear:

² The tongue of the wise commends knowledge, But the mouth of fools gush out folly.

¹⁸ For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who are indeed escaping from those who live in error;

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}

⁷ For every kind of animal, bird, creeping thing, and thing in the sea, is tamed, and has been tamed by mankind.

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

¹⁰ For there are also many unruly men, vain talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision,

¹¹ whose mouths must be stopped; men who overthrow whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for dishonest gain's sake.

³⁴ You offspring of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.

¹² The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but a fool is swallowed by his own lips.

¹³ The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness; and the end of his talk is mischievous madness.

¹⁴ A fool also multiplies words. Man doesn't know what will be; and that which will be after him, who can tell him?

⁶ Don't allow your mouth to lead you into sin. Don't protest before the messenger that this was a mistake. Why should God be angry at your voice, and destroy the work of your hands?

² Don't be rash with your mouth, and don't let your heart be hasty to utter anything before God; for God is in heaven, and you on earth. Therefore let your words be few.

²⁰ Do you see a man who is hasty in his words? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

¹¹ A fool vents all of his anger, But a wise man brings himself under control.

²³ The heart of the wise instructs his mouth, And adds learning to his lips.

¹⁶ Every prudent man acts from knowledge, But a fool exposes folly.

¹⁹ In the multitude of words there is no lack of disobedience, But he who restrains his lips does wisely.

²³ Then said the king, The one says, This is my son who lives, and your son is the dead: and the other says, No; but your son is the dead, and my son is the living.

²⁴ The king said, Get me a sword. They brought a sword before the king.

²⁵ The king said, Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other.

²⁶ Then spoke the woman whose the living child was to the king, for her heart yearned over her son, and she said, Oh, my lord, give her the living child, and in no way kill it. But the other said, It shall be neither mine nor yours; divide it.

²⁷ Then the king answered, Give her the living child, and in no way kill it: she is the mother of it.

²⁸ All Israel heard of the judgment which the king had judged; and they feared the king: for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him, to do justice.