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

¹⁸ A tree of life she `is' to those laying hold on her, And whoso is retaining her `is' happy.

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

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

³ if any one be teaching otherwise, and do not consent to sound words -- those of our Lord Jesus Christ -- and to the teaching according to piety,

² And risen to you, ye who fear My name, Hath the sun of righteousness -- and healing in its wings, And ye have gone forth, and have increased as calves of a stall.

¹⁴ The spirit of a man sustaineth his sickness, And a smitten spirit who doth bear?

⁸ The words of a tale-bearer `are' as self-inflicted wounds, And they have gone down `to' the inner parts of the heart.

²² For I `am' poor and needy, And my heart hath been pierced in my midst.

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

³ Thou hast loved evil rather than good, Lying, than speaking righteousness. Selah.

⁴ Thou hast loved all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue.

²² And Jehovah God saith, `Lo, the man was as one of Us, as to the knowledge of good and evil; and now, lest he send forth his hand, and have taken also of the tree of life, and eaten, and lived to the age,' --

²³ Jehovah God sendeth him forth from the garden of Eden to serve the ground from which he hath been taken;

²⁴ yea, he casteth out the man, and causeth to dwell at the east of the garden of Eden the cherubs and the flame of the sword which is turning itself round to guard the way of the tree of life.

⁷ He who is having an ear -- let him hear what the Spirit saith to the assemblies: To him who is overcoming -- I will give to him to eat of the tree of life that is in the midst of the paradise of God.

²² The words of a tale-bearer `are' as self-inflicted wounds, And they have gone down `to' the inner parts of the heart.