'Speeches' in the Bible

So increase the work load on the people, and let them do it so they don't pay attention to deceptive speeches."

With him will I speak mouth to mouth, even apparently, and not in dark speeches; and the similitude of the LORD shall he behold: wherefore then were ye not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?

Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind?

Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches wherewith he can do no good?

Now he hath not directed his words against me: neither will I answer him with your speeches.

Wherefore, Job, I pray thee, hear my speeches, and hearken to all my words.

Then you will know [without any doubt] that I am the Lord, and that I have heard all your scornful speeches which you have spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, ‘They have been made a wasteland; they have been given to us as food.’