For the LORD gives wisdom: out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.

Get wisdom, get understanding: forget it not; neither turn away from the words of my mouth.

Put away from you a deceitful mouth, and perverse lips put far from you.

For the lips of an immoral woman drop as a honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:

Hear me now therefore, O you children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.

You are snared with the words of your mouth, you are taken with the words of your mouth.

A worthless person, a wicked man, walks with a perverse mouth.

Hearken unto me now therefore, O you children, and attend to the words of my mouth.

For my mouth shall speak truth; and wickedness is an abomination to my lips.

All the words of my mouth are in righteousness; there is nothing crooked or perverse in them.

The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogance, and the evil way, and the perverse mouth, do I hate.

Blessings are upon the head of the just: but violence covers the mouth of the wicked.

The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence covers the mouth of the wicked.

Wise men lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the foolish is near destruction.

The mouth of the just brings forth wisdom: but the perverse tongue shall be cut out.

The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable: but the mouth of the wicked, what is perverse.

A hypocrite with his mouth destroys his neighbor: but through knowledge shall the just be delivered.

By the blessing of the upright the city is exalted: but it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked.

The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood: but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.

A man shall be satisfied with good by the fruit of his mouth: and the recompense of a man's hands shall be rendered unto him.

A man shall eat good by the fruit of his mouth: but the soul of the transgressors feeds on violence.

He that keeps his mouth keeps his life: but he that opens wide his lips shall have destruction.

In the mouth of the foolish is a rod of pride: but the lips of the wise shall preserve them.

The tongue of the wise uses knowledge aright: but the mouth of fools pours out foolishness.

The heart of him that has understanding seeks knowledge: but the mouth of fools feeds on foolishness.

A man has joy by the answer of his mouth: and a word spoken in due season, how good is it!

The heart of the righteous studies to answer: but the mouth of the wicked pours out evil things.

A divine sentence is in the lips of the king: his mouth transgresses not in judgment.

The heart of the wise teaches his mouth, and adds learning to his lips.

He that labors labors for himself; for his mouth craves it of him.

The words of a man's mouth are like deep waters, and the wellspring of wisdom like a flowing brook.

A fool's lips enter into contention, and his mouth calls for blows.

A fool's mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul.

A man's stomach shall be satisfied with the fruit of his mouth; and with the increase of his lips shall he be filled.

A slothful man hides his hand in his dish, and will not so much as bring it to his mouth again.

An ungodly witness scorns judgment: and the mouth of the wicked devours iniquity.

Bread gained by deceit is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.

Whosoever keeps his mouth and his tongue keeps his soul from troubles.

The mouth of immoral women is a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the LORD shall fall therein.

Wisdom is too lofty for a fool: he opens not his mouth in the gate.

The legs of the lame are not equal: so is a parable in the mouth of fools.

As a thorn goes up into the hand of a drunkard, so is a parable in the mouth of fools.

The slothful hides his hand in his dish; it grieves him to bring it again to his mouth.

A lying tongue hates those that are afflicted by it; and a flattering mouth works ruin.

Let another man praise you, and not your own mouth; a stranger, and not your own lips.

This is the way of an adulterous woman; she eats, and wipes her mouth, and says, I have done no wickedness.

If you have done foolishly in lifting up yourself, or if you have thought evil, lay your hand upon your mouth.

Open your mouth for the dumb, for the cause of all who are left desolate.

Open your mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.

She opens her mouth with wisdom; and on her tongue is the law of kindness.