for they made his spirit bitter, and he spoke words that were rash.
When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, she envied her sister, and she said to Jacob, “Give me children, or I shall die!”
But he said to her, “You speak as any foolish woman would speak. Shall we receive good from God and not receive evil?” In all this Job did not sin with his lips.
“Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge?
for they had rebelled against the words of God and spurned the counsel of the Most High.
Set a guard over my mouth, O Lord; keep watch over the door of my lips.
I said, “I will guard my ways that I may not sin with my tongue; I will keep a muzzle on my mouth as long as the wicked are in my presence.”
How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness and grieved him in the desert!
For all of us make many mistakes. Anyone who makes no mistakes in speaking is mature, able to keep the whole body in check with a bridle.