The tongue of the wise uses knowledge rightly, but the mouth of fools pours out foolishness.

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

His flattery has been with forked tongue, and war was in his heart; his words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords.

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.

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

They encourage themselves in an evil plan; they talk of laying snares secretly; they say, Who shall see them?

For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful have opened against me; they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.

They have also surrounded me with words of hatred, and fought against me without a cause.

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

He has said in his heart, the Mighty God has forgotten; He hides His face; He will never see it!

Why have the wicked spurned God? He has said in his heart, You will not investigate.

And they say, How does the Mighty God know? and, Is there knowledge in the Most High?

Yet they say, YAH does not see, nor does the God of Jacob perceive it.

He who planted the ear, shall He not hear? He who formed the eye, shall He not see?

Is not God in the height of the heavens? And see the highest stars, how lofty they are!

And you say, What does the Mighty God know? Can He judge through the deep darkness?

Do you not consider what this people have spoken, saying, The two families which Jehovah has chosen, He has even cast them off? Thus they have despised My people, that they should no more be a nation before them.