¹⁸ A rash speaker is like piercings of a sword, And the tongue of the wise is healing.

²⁴ Sayings of pleasantness `are' a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul, and healing to the bone.

⁴ My soul `is' in the midst of lions, I lie down `among' flames -- sons of men, Their teeth `are' a spear and arrows, And their tongue a sharp sword.

⁶ and the tongue `is' a fire, the world of the unrighteousness, so the tongue is set in our members, which is spotting our whole body, and is setting on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by the gehenna.

⁷ For every nature, both of beasts and of fowls, both of creeping things and things of the sea, is subdued, and hath been subdued, by the human nature,

⁸ and the tongue no one of men is able to subdue, `it is' an unruly evil, full of deadly poison,

⁷ The lips of the wise scatter knowledge, And the heart of fools `is' not right.

⁴ A healed tongue `is' a tree of life, And perverseness in it -- a breach in the spirit.

¹⁷ A wicked messenger falleth into evil, And a faithful ambassador is healing.

²² For life they `are' to those finding them, And to all their flesh healing.

⁷ Lo, they belch out with their mouths, Swords `are' in their lips, for `Who heareth?'

² in the midst of its broad place, and of the river on this side and on that, `is' a tree of life, yielding twelve fruits, in each several month rendering its fruits, and the leaves of the tree `are' for the service of the nations;

¹⁶ and having in his right hand seven stars, and out of his mouth a sharp two-edged sword is proceeding, and his countenance `is' as the sun shining in its might.

³³ And the teachers of the people give understanding to many; and they have stumbled by sword, and by flame, by captivity, and by spoil -- days.

¹⁸ A maul, and a sword, and a sharp arrow, `Is' the man testifying against his neighbour a false testimony.

²⁰ The tongue of the righteous `is' chosen silver, The heart of the wicked -- as a little thing.

²¹ The lips of the righteous delight many, And fools for lack of heart die.

³ Who sharpened as a sword their tongue, They directed their arrow -- a bitter word.

² Mischiefs doth thy tongue devise, Like a sharp razor, working deceit.