The lips of the just consider what is acceptable. And the mouth of the impious considers perversities.
By the blessing of the just, the city shall be exalted. And by the mouth of the impious, it will be subverted.
He who makes promises is also jabbed, as if with a sword, in conscience. But the tongue of the wise is reasonable.
The words of the impious lie in wait for blood. The mouth of the just shall free them.
The tongue of the wise adorns knowledge. But the mouth of the senseless gushes with foolishness.
The mind of the just meditates on obedience. The mouth of the impious overflows with evils.
so that you may be rescued from the evil way, and from the man who speaks perversities,
Remove from yourself a corrupt mouth, and let detracting lips be far from you.
An apostate man, a harmful man, walks with a perverse mouth;
Words from the mouth of a wise man are graceful, but the lips of a foolish man will throw him down with violence.
He sought useful words, and he wrote most righteous words, which were full of truth.
And the king spoke out loud, saying, "Isn't this the great Babylon, which I have built, as the home of the kingdom, by the strength of my power and in the glory of my excellence?"
with sound words, irreproachably, so that he who is an opponent may dread that he has nothing evil to say about us.