17 Let not thy mouth be accustomed to indiscreet speech: for therein is the word of sin.
18 Remember thy father and thy mother, for thou sittest is the midst of great men:
19 Lest God forget thee in their sight, and thou, by thy daily custom, be infatuated and suffer reproach: and wish that thou hadst not been born, and curse the day of thy nativity.
20 The man that is accustomed to opprobrious words, will never be corrected all the days of his life.
21 Two sorts of men multiply sins, and the third bringeth wrath and destruction.
22 A hot soul is a burning fire, it will never be quenched, till it devour some thing.
23 And a man that is wicked in the mouth of his flesh, will not leave off till he hath kindled a fire.