23:7 Hear, O ye children, the discipline of the mouth: he that keepeth it shall never be taken in his lips.
23:8 The sinner shall be left in his foolishness: both the evil speaker and the proud shall fall thereby.
23:9 Accustom not thy mouth to swearing; neither use thyself to the naming of the Holy One.
23:10 For as a servant that is continually beaten shall not be without a blue mark: so he that sweareth and nameth God continually shall not be faultless.
23:11 A man that useth much swearing shall be filled with iniquity, and the plague shall never depart from his house: if he shall offend, his sin shall be upon him: and if he acknowledge not his sin, he maketh a double offence: and if he swear in vain, he shall not be innocent, but his house shall be full of calamities.
23:12 There is a word that is clothed about with death: God grant that it be not found in the heritage of Jacob; for all such things shall be far from the godly, and they shall not wallow in their sins.
23:13 Use not thy mouth to intemperate swearing, for therein is the word of sin.
23:14 Remember thy father and thy mother, when thou sittest among great men. Be not forgetful before them, and so thou by thy custom become a fool, and wish that thou hadst not been born, and curse the day of thy nativity.
23:15 The man that is accustomed to opprobrious words will never be reformed all the days of his life.
23:16 Two sorts of men multiply sin, and the third will bring wrath: a hot mind is as a burning fire, it will never be quenched till it be consumed: a fornicator in the body of his flesh will never cease till he hath kindled a fire.