21 Mavet and chayyim are in the power of the lashon,

and they that love it shall eat the p’ri (fruit) thereof.

1 A soft answer turneth away chemah (wrath);

but harsh devarim stir up anger.

4 A marpeh lashon (a tongue of healing) is an Etz Chayyim,

but selef (perversity) therein is crushing to the ruach (spirit).

23 An ish hath simchah in the apt reply of his peh (mouth),

and a timely davar, mah tov (how good!)

22 Without counsel, plans go amiss,

but in the multitude of yo’atzim (counsellors) they are established.

19 In the multitude of devarim there wanteth not sin,

but he that restraineth his sfatayim (lips) is maskil (wise).

3 He that is shomer over his peh (mouth) guards his nefesh,

but he that openeth wide his sfatayim (lips) shall have ruin.

28 Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted chacham,

and he that shutteth his sfatayim (lips) is esteemed a man of understanding.

13 A bringer of rekhil (gossip),* revealeth sod (secrets, confidences),

but he that is of a ne’eman ruach concealeth the matter.

8 Open thy peh (mouth) for the illem (mute)

in the cause of all such as are bnei chalof (sons of destitution).

12 The words of a chachamʼs mouth are chen (gracious);

but the lips of a kesil will swallow up himself.

36 But I say to you, that for every careless lashon horah (evil speech) that men speak, they will be called to account on the Yom HaDin (the Day of Judgment).

15 And if your Ach b’Moshiach sins against you, go and reprove him in private, just between the two of you; if he listens to you, you have gained your Ach b’Moshiach.

7 But when you daven, do not babble on and on maarich (extended, long winded) and vacuously and without kavvanah (heartfelt direction, intention) like the Goyim. For the Goyim think that in their verbosity their techinnah will be heard.

3 So then, what things you said in the choshech, will be heard in the ohr; and what you whispered in the ear bchadrei chadarim (in a most secret place) will be shouted from the roof tops.

45 The ish tov from the good storehouse of the lev produces tov, and the ish rah out of the evil storehouse produces rah. For from the abundance of the lev the peh (mouth) speaks.

9 Because if you make hoda’ah (confession) "with your PEH" of Adoneinu Yehoshua, and have emunah "in your LEV" that G-d raised him from the Mesim, you* will be delivered.

26 In the same way, the Ruach Hakodesh helps us in our weakness.* For as we daven, we do not know as we should for what to make tefillos (prayers), but the Ruach HaKodesh Himself intercedes on our behalf with labor pang groans not intelligibly uttered.

29 Let no lashon hora proceed out of your peh, but only a dvar that is tov, for edification in accordance with the need, that it may mediate Chen v’Chesed Hashem to the ones hearing.

19 Have da’as of this, my beloved Achim b’Moshiach. Let every man be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to ka’as (anger).*

2 For all of us stumble variously. If anyone as far as lashon hora is concerned, does not stumble, this one is an ish tamim able to bridle also the entire guf (body).*

9 Not rendering ra’ah for ra’ah or lashon hora for lashon hora, but, fahkert (on the contrary), rendering a bracha (blessing), because to this tachlis (purpose) you were given your kri’ah (calling), that you may inherit a bracha (blessing).

18 Yeladim, let us not have ahavah in dvar or in lashon but in ma’aseh and in Emes.*

1 O give thanks unto Hashem; call upon Shmo;

make known His deeds among the amim.

8 Let my mouth be filled with Thy tehillah (praise)

and with Thy tiferet (glory) kol hayom.