¹⁸ A man who gives false testimony against his neighbor Is like a club, a sword, or a sharp arrow.

¹⁸ There is one who speaks rashly like the piercing of a sword, But the tongue of the wise heals.

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.

⁸ Their tongue is a deadly arrow; it speaks deceit: one speaks peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in his heart he lays wait for him.

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}

³ They bend their tongue, [as it were] their bow, for falsehood; and they are grown strong in the land, but not for truth: for they proceed from evil to evil, and they don't know me, says Yahweh.

²⁸ Don't be a witness against your neighbor without cause. Don't deceive with your lips.

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

³ What will be given to you, and what will be done more to you, You deceitful tongue?

⁴ Sharp arrows of the mighty, With coals of juniper.

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

² Your tongue plots destruction, Like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.