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

Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue; Though he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth: Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him.

She openeth her mouth with wisdom; and in her tongue is the law of kindness.

For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind: But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.

Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the pride of man: thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues.

My heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made touching the king: my tongue is the pen of a ready writer.