Proverbs 16:21-30

²¹Men call the wise and understanding evil: but they that are pleasing in speech shall hear more.

²²Understanding is a fountain of life to its possessors; but the instruction of fools is evil.

²³The heart of the wise will discern the things which proceed from his own mouth; and on his lips he will wear knowledge.

²⁴Good words are honeycombs, and the sweetness thereof is a healing of the soul.

²⁵There are ways that seem to be right to a man, but the end of them looks to the depth of hell.

²⁶A man who labours, labours for himself, and drives from him his own ruin.

²⁷But the perverse bears destruction upon his own mouth: a foolish man digs up evil for himself, and treasures fire on his own lips.

²⁸A perverse man spreads mischief, and will kindle a torch of deceit with mischiefs; and he separates friends.

²⁹A transgressor tries to ensnare friends, and leads them in ways that are not good.

³⁰And the man that fixes his eyes devises perverse things, and marks out with his lips all evil: he is a furnace of wickedness.