Proverbs 10:32

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

⁶The words of the wicked are about lying in wait for blood, but the speech of the upright rescues them.

²⁸The heart of the righteous weighs answers, but the mouth of the wicked gushes out evil.

¹⁸There is one who speaks rashly like the piercing of a sword, but the tongue of the wise heals.

¹²to deliver you from the way of evil, from the men who speak perverse things,

¹⁰The Preacher sought to find out acceptable words, and that which was written blamelessly, words of truth.

⁶A fool’s lips come into strife, and his mouth invites beatings. ⁷A fool’s mouth is his destruction, and his lips are a snare to his soul. ⁸The words of a gossip are like dainty morsels: they go down into a person’s innermost parts.

²The tongue of the wise commends knowledge, but the mouths of fools gush out folly.

²⁷Therefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable to you, and break off your sins by righteousness, and your iniquities by showing mercy to the poor. Perhaps there may be a lengthening of your tranquility.”

⁸and soundness of speech that can’t be condemned, that he who opposes you may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say about us.