Your tongue devises destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

You love evil more than good, and lying more than to speak righteousness. Selah.

My soul is among lions; I lie among the sons of men who are on fire, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.

Behold, they belch with their mouth; swords are in their lips; for they say, Who hears?

who sharpen their tongue like a sword. They have bent their bows to shoot their arrows; even bitter words,

so that they may shoot at the perfect one from a hiding place; suddenly they shoot at him and do not fear.

There are those who speak like the thrusts of a sword, but the tongue of the wise heals.

For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue has uttered perverseness.

They hatch vipers' eggs and weave the spider's web; he who eats their eggs dies, and that which is crushed breaks out into a viper.

And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies. But they are not mighty for the truth on the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not know Me, says Jehovah.

And everyone will deceive his neighbor and will not speak the truth; they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and they weary themselves to commit iniquity.

And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity. Thus the tongue is set among our members, defiling the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire by Gehenna.

But no man is able to tame the tongue. It is an uncontrollable evil, full of deadly poison.

And Jehovah God said to the woman, What is this you have done? And the woman said, The serpent deceived me, and I ate.

In the end it bites like a serpent and stings like a viper.

Offspring of vipers! How can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.

But I fear, lest somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, so your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

Their poison is like the poison of a serpent, like the deaf cobra that stops its ear,

Their throat is an open tomb; with their tongues they have practiced deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips;

whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.