who whet their tongues like swords, who aim bitter words like arrows,
And the tongue is a fire, a world of unrighteousness. The tongue is set among our members, staining the whole body, setting on fire the entire course of life, and set on fire by hell. For every kind of beast and bird, of reptile and sea creature, can be tamed and has been tamed by mankind, but no human being can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.
Let them vanish like water that runs away; when he aims his arrows, let them be blunted.
My soul is in the midst of lions; I lie down amid fiery beasts— the children of man, whose teeth are spears and arrows, whose tongues are sharp swords.
They bend their tongue like a bow; falsehood and not truth has grown strong in the land; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not know me, declares the Lord.
There is one whose rash words are like sword thrusts, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.
for behold, the wicked bend the bow; they have fitted their arrow to the string to shoot in the dark at the upright in heart;
no weapon that is fashioned against you shall succeed, and you shall refute every tongue that rises against you in judgment. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord and their vindication from me, declares the Lord.”
There are those whose teeth are swords, whose fangs are knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, the needy from among mankind.
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