²⁰ One who has a perverse heart doesn't find prosperity, And one who has a deceitful tongue falls into trouble.

⁶ A fool's lips come into strife, And his mouth invites beatings.

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

³¹ The mouth of the righteous brings forth wisdom, But the perverse tongue will be cut off.

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.

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

¹⁴ Wise men lay up knowledge, But the mouth of the foolish is near ruin.

¹⁰ One winking with the eye causes sorrow, But a chattering fool will fall.

¹³ The fear of Yahweh is to hate evil. I hate pride, arrogance, the evil way, and the perverse mouth.

¹² A worthless person, a man of iniquity, Is he who walks with a perverse mouth;

¹³ Who winks with his eyes, who signals with his feet, Who motions with his fingers;

¹⁴ In whose heart is perverseness, Who devises evil continually, Who always sows discord.

¹⁵ Therefore his calamity will come suddenly. He will be broken suddenly, and that without remedy.

³² For the perverse is an abomination to Yahweh, But his friendship is with the upright.

²⁶ With the pure, you will show yourself pure. With the crooked you will show yourself shrewd.