Proverbs

²³The mind of the wise instructs his mouth, and adds learning and persuasiveness to his lips. ²⁴Pleasant words are as a honeycomb, sweet to the mind and healing to the body. ²⁵There is a way that seems right to a man and appears straight before him, but at the end of it is the way of death. ²⁶The appetite of the laborer works for him, for [the need of] his mouth urges him on. ²⁷A worthless man devises and digs up mischief, and in his lips there is as a scorching fire. ²⁸A perverse man sows strife, and a whisperer separates close friends. [Prov. 17:9.] ²⁹The exceedingly grasping, covetous, and violent man entices his neighbor, leading him in a way that is not good.