Job 15:5
For your iniquity instructs your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty.
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- Jeremiah 9:3–5 “They bend their tongues like bows; lies prevail over truth in the land. For they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not take Me into account,” declares the LORD. “Let everyone guard against his neighbor; do not trust any brother, for every brother deals craftily, and every friend spreads slander. Each one betrays his friend; no one tells the truth. They have taught their tongues to lie; they wear themselves out committing iniquity.
- James 1:26 If anyone considers himself religious and yet does not bridle his tongue, he deceives his heart and his religion is worthless.
- Psalm 50:19–20 You unleash your mouth for evil and harness your tongue to deceit. You sit and malign your brother; you slander your own mother’s son.