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

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

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.

⁸ A slaughtering arrow `is' their tongue, Deceit it hath spoken in its mouth, Peace with its neighbour it speaketh, And in its heart it layeth its ambush,

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.

³ And they bend their tongue, their bow `is' a lie, And not for stedfastness have they been mighty in the land, For from evil unto evil they have gone forth, And Me they have not known, An affirmation of Jehovah!

²⁸ Be not a witness for nought against thy neighbour, Or thou hast enticed with thy lips.

³ They sharpened their tongue as a serpent, Poison of an adder `is' under their lips. Selah.

³ What doth He give to thee? And what doth He add to thee? O deceitful tongue!

⁴ Sharp arrows of a mighty one, with broom-coals.

²¹ Sweeter than honey hath been his mouth, And his heart `is' war! Softer have been his words than oil, And they `are' drawn `swords'.

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