The wicked is snared by the transgression of {his} lips: but the just shall come out of trouble. {The wicked...: Heb. The snare of the wicked is in the transgression of lips}

By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood. {blood: Heb. bloods}

His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue {is} mischief and vanity. {deceit: Heb. deceits} {vanity: or, iniquity}

A fool's mouth {is} his destruction, and his lips {are} the snare of his soul.

The wicked in {his} pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined. {The wicked...: Heb. In the pride of the wicked he doth persecute}

What shall be given unto thee? or what shall be done unto thee, thou false tongue? {What shall be given...: or, What shall the deceitful tongue give unto thee? or, what shall it profit thee?} {done: Heb. added}

But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.

In that day shalt thou not be ashamed for all thy doings, wherein thou hast transgressed against me: for then I will take away out of the midst of thee them that rejoice in thy pride, and thou shalt no more be haughty because of my holy mountain. {because...: Heb. in my holy}

Saying, Sir, we remember that that deceiver said, while he was yet alive, After three days I will rise again.

And render unto our neighbours sevenfold into their bosom their reproach, wherewith they have reproached thee, O Lord.

Then answered all the people, and said, His blood {be} on us, and on our children.

Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, thou art taken with the words of thy mouth.

The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them: but transgressors shall be taken in {their own} naughtiness.

And they were the more fierce, saying, He stirreth up the people, teaching throughout all Jewry, beginning from Galilee to this place.

But God shall shoot at them {with} an arrow; suddenly shall they be wounded. {shall they...: Heb. their wound shall be}

{As for} the head of those that compass me about, let the mischief of their own lips cover them.

As he loved cursing, so let it come unto him: as he delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from him.

A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil: for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh.

The wicked in {his} pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined. {The wicked...: Heb. In the pride of the wicked he doth persecute}

Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God.

The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day.

Whose mouth {is} full of cursing and bitterness:

As he loved cursing, so let it come unto him: as he delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from him.

Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous. {grievous...: Heb. a hard thing}

Destroy thou them, O God; let them fall by their own counsels; cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions; for they have rebelled against thee. {Destroy...: or, Make them guilty} {by...: or, from their counsels}

So they shall make their own tongue to fall upon themselves: all that see them shall flee away.

His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue {is} mischief and vanity. {deceit: Heb. deceits} {vanity: or, iniquity}

Give them according to their deeds, and according to the wickedness of their endeavours: give them after the work of their hands; render to them their desert.

But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; but I will trust in thee. {bloody...: Heb. men of bloods and deceit} {shall...: Heb. shall not half their days}

They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: {with} flattering lips {and} with a double heart do they speak. {a double...: Heb. an heart and an heart}

{How long} shall they utter {and} speak hard things? {and} all the workers of iniquity boast themselves?

But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips.