For your crookedness teaches your mouth what to say, and you choose the tongue of the crafty.
and show you the secrets of wisdom, doubling your ability. Know then that Eloah forgets some of your crookedness for you.
The tents of robbers are at peace, and those who provoke Ě
Indeed, you do away with reverence, and withhold prayer before Ě
Is not your evil great? And is there no end to your crookednesses?
Then these three men ceased to answer Iyoḇ
And the wrath of Elihu, son of Baraḵ
thwarting the schemes of the crafty, so that their hands do not work effectively;
catching the wise in their own craftiness, and the counsel of schemers are swept away.
Who sharpen their tongue like a sword, And aim their arrows, a bitter word,
“Their tongue is an arrow shot out. It speaks deceit – speaks peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth, but in his heart he sets his ambush.
“The good man brings forth what is good out of the good treasure of his heart, and the wicked man brings forth what is wicked out of the wicked treasure of his heart. For out of the overflow of the heart his mouth speaks.
If anyone among you thinks he is religious, and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his own heart, this one’s religion is worthless.