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

²⁴ Put away from yourself a perverse mouth. Put corrupt lips far from you.

²⁷ A worthless man devises mischief. His speech is like a scorching fire.

⁴ An evil-doer heeds wicked lips. A liar gives ear to a mischievous tongue.

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

³⁰ Men will arise from among your own selves, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.

¹³ Besides, they also learn to be idle, going about from house to house. Not only idle, but also gossips and busybodies, saying things which they ought not.

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.

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}

⁶ The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them, But the unfaithful will be trapped by evil desires.

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

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

¹² To deliver you from the way of evil, From the men who speak perverse things;

³ For the wicked boasts of his heart's cravings, He blesses the greedy, and condemns Yahweh.

⁷ His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and oppression. Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.

³ The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit. He has ceased to be wise and to do good.

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

³ You love evil more than good, Lying rather than speaking the truth. Selah.

⁴ You love all devouring words, You deceitful tongue.

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

⁸ They scoff and speak with malice. In arrogance, they threaten oppression.

⁹ They have set their mouth in the heavens. Their tongue walks through the earth.

²¹ Therefore, putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with humility the implanted word, which is able to save your souls{or, preserve your life.}.

⁸ As the bad figs, which can't be eaten, they are so bad, surely thus says Yahweh, So will I give up Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his princes, and the residue of Jerusalem, who remain in this land, and those who dwell in the land of Egypt,

⁹ I will even give them up to be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth for evil; to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places where I shall drive them.

¹⁰ I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, among them, until they be consumed from off the land that I gave to them and to their fathers.

² One basket had very good figs, like the figs that are first-ripe; and the other basket had very bad figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad.

²⁸ Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spoke to the men; and Eliab's anger was kindled against David, and he said, Why are you come down? and with whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your pride, and the naughtiness of your heart; for you have come down that you might see the battle.