Job 16:3

3Shall awindy words have an end?
Or what provokes you that you answer?

Job 18:2

2 “How long will you bhunt for words?
Consider, and then we will speak.

Psalms 140:11

11Let not the slanderer be established in the land;
let evil hunt down the violent man speedily!

Proverbs 10:19

19 cWhen words are many, transgression is not lacking,
dbut whoever restrains his lips is prudent.

Acts 17:18

18Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also conversed with him. And some said, eWhat does this babbler wish to say?” Others said, “He seems to be a preacher of foreign divinities”—because fhe was preaching gJesus and the resurrection.

James 1:19

Hearing and Doing the Word

19 hKnow this, my beloved brothers: let every person ibe quick to hear, jslow to speak, kslow to anger;
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