because the LORD hates people who do evil, but he takes righteous people into his confidence.

Worthless, wicked people go around telling lies.

all the while planning evil in their perverted minds, stirring up trouble everywhere.

To honor the LORD is to hate evil; I hate pride and arrogance, evil ways and false words.

You are pure to those who are pure, but hostile to those who are wicked.

Someone who holds back the truth causes trouble, but one who openly criticizes works for peace.

The wise get all the knowledge they can, but when fools speak, trouble is not far off.

Righteous people speak wisdom, but the tongue that speaks evil will be stopped.

When some fool starts an argument, he is asking for a beating.

When a fool speaks, he is ruining himself; he gets caught in the trap of his own words.

What the wise say brings them honor, but fools are destroyed by their own words.

And the tongue is like a fire. It is a world of wrong, occupying its place in our bodies and spreading evil through our whole being. It sets on fire the entire course of our existence with the fire that comes to it from hell itself.

But no one has ever been able to tame the tongue. It is evil and uncontrollable, full of deadly poison.