Thoughtless words can wound as deeply as any sword, but wisely spoken words can heal.

You make plans to ruin others; your tongue is like a sharp razor. You are always inventing lies.

His words were smoother than cream, but there was hatred in his heart; his words were as soothing as oil, but they cut like sharp swords.

I am surrounded by enemies, who are like lions hungry for human flesh. Their teeth are like spears and arrows; their tongues are like sharp swords.

You liars, what will God do to you? How will he punish you?

With a soldier's sharp arrows, with red-hot coals!

Their tongues are like deadly snakes; their words are like a cobra's poison.

They are always ready to tell lies; dishonesty instead of truth rules the land. The LORD says, "My people do one evil thing after another and do not acknowledge me as their God."

Their tongues are like deadly arrows; they always tell lies. Everyone speaks friendly words to their neighbors, but they are really setting a trap for them.

And the tongue is like a fire. It is a world of wrong, occupying its place in our bodies and spreading evil through our whole being. It sets on fire the entire course of our existence with the fire that comes to it from hell itself.