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.

² The tongue of the wise maketh knowledge good, And the mouth of fools uttereth folly.

¹¹ He said in his heart, `God hath forgotten, He hath hid His face, He hath never seen.'

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

¹¹ And they have said, `How hath God known? And is there knowledge in the Most High?'

³⁴ `Brood of vipers! how are ye able to speak good things -- being evil? for out of the abundance of the heart doth the mouth speak.

²⁴ `Hast thou not considered what this people have spoken, saying: The two families on which Jehovah fixed, He doth reject them, And my people they despise -- So that they are no more a people before them!

²⁸ The heart of the righteous meditateth to answer, And the mouth of the wicked uttereth evil things.

² For the mouth of wickedness, and the mouth of deceit, Against me they have opened, They have spoken with me -- A tongue of falsehood, and words of hatred!

³ They have compassed me about, And they fight me without cause.

⁷ And they say, `Jehovah doth not see, And the God of Jacob doth not consider.'

⁸ Consider, ye brutish among the people, And ye foolish, when do ye act wisely?

⁹ He who planteth the ear doth He not hear? He who formeth the eye doth He not see?

⁴ They utter -- they speak an old saw, All working iniquity do boast themselves.

³ Who sharpened as a sword their tongue, They directed their arrow -- a bitter word.

⁴ To shoot in secret places the perfect, Suddenly they shoot him, and fear not.

⁵ They strengthen for themselves an evil thing, They recount of the hiding of snares, They have said, `Who doth look at it?'

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'.

¹³ Wherefore hath the wicked despised God? He hath said in his heart, `It is not required.'

¹² Is not God high `in' heaven? And see the summit of the stars, That they are high.

¹³ And thou hast said, `What -- hath God known? Through thickness doth He judge?