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

⁵ Thine arrows `are' sharp, -- Peoples fall under Thee -- In the heart of the enemies of the king.

⁸ and to fearful, and unstedfast, and abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all the liars, their part `is' in the lake that is burning with fire and brimstone, which is a second death.'

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.

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,

⁹ A false witness is not acquitted, And whoso breatheth out lies perisheth.

⁵ A false witness is not acquitted, Whoso breatheth out lies is not delivered.

²¹ Death and life `are' in the power of the tongue, And those loving it eat its fruit.

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

²⁷ A worthless man is preparing evil, And on his lips -- as a burning fire.

²² An abomination to Jehovah `are' lying lips, And stedfast doers `are' his delight.

¹⁸ The wicked is getting a lying wage, And whoso is sowing righteousness -- a true reward.

¹² Whoso is despising his neighbour lacketh heart, And a man of understanding keepeth silence.

⁹ With the mouth a hypocrite corrupteth his friend, And by knowledge the righteous are drawn out.

⁹ The chief of my surrounders, The perverseness of their lips covereth them.

¹⁰ They cause to fall on themselves burning coals, Into fire He doth cast them, Into deep pits -- they arise not.

¹¹ A talkative man is not established in the earth, One of violence -- evil hunteth to overflowing.

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

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.

⁵ Also -- God doth break thee down for ever, Taketh thee, and pulleth thee out of the tent, And He hath uprooted thee Out of the land of the living. Selah.

¹³ Yea, for him He hath prepared Instruments of death, His arrows for burning pursuers He maketh.

²³ I gather upon them evils, Mine arrows I consume upon them.

²⁴ Exhausted by famine, And consumed by heat, and bitter destruction. And the teeth of beasts I send upon them, With poison of fearful things of the dust.