'Speech' in the Bible
One of the servants answered and said, "Look, I have seen a son of Jesse the Bethlehemite [who is] skillful in playing a stringed instrument, a {brave man, a warrior, prudent in speech, and handsome}. And Yahweh [is] with him."
He deprives [the] trustworthy of speech, and he takes away [the] discretion of elders.
{Every day} [they] pour forth speech, and {every night} [they] tell knowledge.
There is no speech and there are no words; their sound is inaudible.
Confuse, O Lord; divide their speech, because I see violence and strife in the city.
Remove from yourself {deceitful speech}, and abolish {devious talk} from yourself.
A worthless man, an evil man, goes around with {deceitful speech}.
{Fine speech} [is] not becoming a fool, {still less} [is] {false speech} for a ruler.
Better a poor person walking in integrity than one who is perverse {in his speech} and is a fool.
He who loves purity of heart [and has]{gracious speech}, his friend [is the] king.
For Jerusalem has stumbled, and Judah has fallen because their speech and their deeds [are] against Yahweh, defying the eyes of his glory.
And a scoundrel, his weapons [are] evil; he plans evil devices to ruin [the] poor with words of deception even when the speech of [the] needy [is] right.
Then you shall call, and Yahweh himself will answer. You shall cry for help, and he will say, 'Here I [am]!' If you remove from among you [the] yoke, the {finger-pointing} and {evil speech},
For you are sent to the house of Israel, not to a people {of obscure speech} and {of a difficult language},
[and] not to many nations {of obscure speech} and {a difficult language} {whose words} you do not understand, [for] if I had sent you to them they would have listened to you.
And you magnified yourself against me with your {insolent speech}, and you spoke voluminously against me [with] your words--I heard!
Because then I will {make the speech of the nations pure}; that all of them might call on the name of Yahweh, to serve him {in unison}.