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

¹⁶ Return doth his perverseness on his head, And on his crown his violence cometh down.

⁷ The mouth of a fool `is' ruin to him, And his lips `are' the snare of his soul.

¹³ In transgression of the lips `is' the snare of the wicked, And the righteous goeth out from distress.

²⁵ and all the people answering said, `His blood `is' upon us, and upon our children!'

¹¹ A fountain of life `is' the mouth of the righteous, And the mouth of the wicked cover doth violence.

⁶ Blessings `are' for the head of the righteous, And the mouth of the wicked cover doth violence.

²³ And turneth back on them their iniquity, And in their wickedness cutteth them off; Jehovah our God doth cut them off!

⁸ And they cause him to stumble, Against them `is' their own tongue, Every looker on them fleeth away.

¹⁰ And they hang Haman upon the tree that he had prepared for Mordecai, and the fury of the king hath lain down.

¹⁴ And Zeresh his wife saith to him, and all his friends, `Let them prepare a tree, in height fifty cubits, and in the morning speak to the king, and they hang Mordecai on it, and go thou in with the king unto the banquet rejoicing;' and the thing is good before Haman, and he prepareth the tree.