³ In the mouth of a fool `is' a rod of pride, And the lips of the wise preserve them.

⁶ The words of the wicked `are': `Lay wait for blood,' And the mouth of the upright delivereth them.

⁵ And after these things I saw, and lo, opened was the sanctuary of the tabernacle of the testimony in the heaven;

⁶ and come forth did the seven messengers having the seven plagues, out of the sanctuary, clothed in linen, pure and shining, and girded round the breasts with golden girdles:

¹¹ and they did overcome him because of the blood of the Lamb, and because of the word of their testimony, and they did not love their life -- unto death;

¹⁰ `Because thou didst keep the word of my endurance, I also will keep thee from the hour of the trial that is about to come upon all the world, to try those dwelling upon the earth.

¹⁸ for overswellings of vanity speaking, they do entice in desires of the flesh -- lasciviousnesses, those who had truly escaped from those conducting themselves in error,

⁵ so also the tongue is a little member, and doth boast greatly; lo, a little fire how much wood it doth kindle!

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.

⁹ that if thou mayest confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and mayest believe in thy heart that God did raise him out of the dead, thou shalt be saved,

¹⁰ for with the heart doth `one' believe to righteousness, and with the mouth is confession made to salvation;

²⁰ and concerning the ten horns that `are' in its heads, and of the other that came up, and before which three have fallen, even of that horn that hath eyes, and a mouth speaking great things, and whose appearance `is' great above its companions.

²⁵ Whoso is proud in soul stirreth up contention, And whoso is trusting on Jehovah is made fat.

⁸ Whoso is sowing perverseness reapeth sorrow, And the rod of his anger weareth out.

²⁴ Proud, haughty, scorner `is' his name, Who is working in the wrath of pride.

⁶ The lips of a fool enter into strife, And his mouth for stripes calleth.

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.

¹ To the Overseer. -- An instruction, by David, in the coming in of Doeg the Edomite, and he declareth to Saul, and saith to him, `David came in unto the house of Ahimelech.' What, boasteth thou in evil, O mighty one? The kindness of God `is' all the day.

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

¹⁸ Let lips of falsehood become dumb, That are speaking against the righteous, Ancient sayings, in pride and contempt.

³ Jehovah doth cut off all lips of flattery, A tongue speaking great things,

²¹ When the tongue scourgeth thou art hid, And thou art not afraid of destruction, When it cometh.

³ Ye multiply not -- ye speak haughtily -- The old saying goeth out from your mouth, For a God of knowledge `is' Jehovah, And by Him actions are weighed.