Job 15:5
For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty.
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- Jeremiah 9:3–5 “They bend their tongue, as their bow, for falsehood. They have grown strong in the land, but not for truth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they don’t know me,” says Yahweh. “Everyone beware of his neighbor, and don’t trust in any brother; for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will go around like a slanderer. Friends deceive each other, and will not speak the truth. They have taught their tongue to speak lies. They weary themselves committing iniquity.
- James 1:26 If anyone among you thinks himself to be religious while he doesn’t bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart, this man’s religion is worthless.
- Psalm 50:19–20 “You give your mouth to evil. Your tongue frames deceit. You sit and speak against your brother. You slander your own mother’s son.