Thereis one who speaksrashlylike the thrustsof a sword,But the tongueof the wisebringshealing.
Your tonguedevisesdestruction,Like a sharprazor,O workerof deceit.
My soulis amonglions;I must lieamong those who breatheforthfire,[Even] the sonsof men,whose teethare spearsand arrowsAnd their tonguea sharpsword.
Be exaltedabovethe heavens,O God;[Let] Your glory[be] aboveallthe earth.
Behold,they belchforthwith their mouth;Swordsare in their lips,For, [they say], "Whohears?"
Whohave sharpenedtheir tonguelike a sword.They aimedbitterspeech[as] their arrow,
He who speakstruthtellswhatis right,But a false witness,deceit.
A wickedmessengerfallsinto adversity,But a faithfulenvoy[brings] healing.
A soothingtongueis a treeof life,But perversionin it crushesthe spirit.
The lipsof the wisespreadknowledge,But the heartsof foolsare not so.
Pleasantwordsare a honeycomb,Sweetto the souland healingto the bones.
[Like] a cluband a swordand a sharparrowIs a manwho bearsfalse~witnessagainst his neighbor.
For they are lifeto those who findthem And healthto alltheir body.
"Those who haveinsightamong the peoplewill giveunderstandingto the many;yet they will fallby swordand by flame,by captivityand by plunderfor [many] days.
In His righthandHe heldsevenstars,and out of His mouthcamea sharptwo-edgedsword;and His facewas likethe sunshiningin its strength.
in the middleof its street.On either sideof the riverwas the treeof life,bearingtwelve[kinds of] fruit,yieldingits fruiteverymonth;and the leavesof the treewere for the healingof the nations.
