²⁸Thou shalt not revile the gods, nor curse the ruler of thy people.

¹⁸Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me.

⁷His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.

⁸He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor.

³The LORD shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud things:

⁴Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips are our own: who is lord over us?

¹³Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.

²¹Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me, and said, Aha, aha, our eye hath seen it.

⁵Mine enemies speak evil of me, When shall he die, and his name perish?

⁶And if he come to see me, he speaketh vanity: his heart gathereth iniquity to itself; when he goeth abroad, he telleth it.

⁷All that hate me whisper together against me: against me do they devise my hurt.

²Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

³Thou lovest evil more than good; and lying rather than to speak righteousness. Selah.

⁴Thou lovest all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue.

¹²For the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips let them even be taken in their pride: and for cursing and lying which they speak.

²Hide me from the secret counsel of the wicked; from the insurrection of the workers of iniquity:

³Who whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words:

⁴That they may shoot in secret at the perfect: suddenly do they shoot at him, and fear not.

¹²They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I was the song of the drunkards.

²⁶For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded.

³Let them be turned back for a reward of their shame that say, Aha, aha.

⁸Mine enemies reproach me all the day; and they that are mad against me are sworn against me.

³³Because they provoked his spirit, so that he spake unadvisedly with his lips.

²³Princes also did sit and speak against me: but thy servant did meditate in thy statutes.

¹In my distress I cried unto the LORD, and he heard me.

²Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue.

³What shall be given unto thee? or what shall be done unto thee, thou false tongue?

³They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders’ poison is under their lips. Selah.

¹¹Let not an evil speaker be established in the earth: evil shall hunt the violent man to overthrow him.

²⁴Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee.

¹⁶These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:

¹⁷A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,

¹⁸An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,

¹³The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.

¹¹The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.

¹⁹In the multitude of words there wanteth not sin: but he that refraineth his lips is wise.

³¹The mouth of the just bringeth forth wisdom: but the froward tongue shall be cut out.

³²The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable: but the mouth of the wicked speaketh frowardness.

¹¹By the blessing of the upright the city is exalted: but it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked.

⁵The thoughts of the righteous are right: but the counsels of the wicked are deceit.