because they provoked His Spirit, and he spoke rashly with his lips.
When Rachel saw that she could not give Jacob children, she became jealous of her sister. She said to Jacob, “Give me children, or I will die.”
He said to her, “You talk like one of the foolish women talks. Will we indeed accept the good from God but not accept the adversity?” In all this Job did not sin with his lips.
“Who is this who darkens counsel by words without knowledge?
because they rebelled against the words of God, and scorned the counsel of the Most High.
Set a guard, O Lord, over my mouth; keep watch over the door of my lips.
I said, “I will guard my ways, lest I sin with my tongue; I will keep a muzzle on my mouth while the wicked are before me.”
How often they provoked Him in the wilderness and grieved Him in the desert!
We all stumble in many ways. But if any man does not stumble in what he says, he is a complete man and able also to control the whole body.