⁹ As for the head of those who surround me, Let the mischief of their own lips cover them.

¹⁶ The trouble he causes shall return to his own head. His violence shall come down on the crown of his own head.

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

¹³ An evil man is trapped by sinfulness of lips, But the righteous shall come out of trouble.

²⁵ All the people answered, "May his blood be on us, and on our children!"

¹¹ The mouth of the righteous is a spring of life, But violence covers the mouth of the wicked.

⁶ Blessings are on the head of the righteous, But violence covers the mouth of the wicked.

²³ He has brought on them their own iniquity, And will cut them off in their own wickedness. Yahweh, our God, will cut them off.

⁸ Their own tongues shall ruin them. All who see them will shake their heads.

¹⁰ So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was the king's wrath pacified.

¹⁴ Then said Zeresh his wife and all his friends to him, Let a gallows be made fifty cubits high, and in the morning speak you to the king that Mordecai may be hanged thereon: then go you in merrily with the king to the banquet. The thing pleased Haman; and he caused the gallows to be made.