Job 5:21 Cross References - MSTC

²¹ He shall keep thee from the perilous tongue so that when trouble cometh, thou shalt not need to fear.

²⁰ Thou shalt hide them privily by thine own presence from the provoking of all men; thou shalt keep them secretly in thy tabernacle from the strife of tongues.

²¹ Their mouths are softer than butter, and yet have they battle in their mind: their words are smoother than oil, and yet be they very swords.

⁴ I lie with my soul among the cruel lions; even among the children of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.

⁵ Thou shalt not be afraid for any terror by night, nor for the arrow that flieth by day; ⁶ for the pestilence that walketh in darkness, nor for the sickness that destroyeth in the noonday. ⁷ A thousand shall fall beside thee, and ten thousand at thy righthand; but it shall not come nigh thee.

¹⁸ A slanderous person pricketh like a sword; but a wise man's tongue is wholesome.

¹⁷ but all the weapons that are made against thee, shall not prosper. And as for all tongues that shall resist thee in judgment, thou shalt overcome them, and condemn them. This is the heritage of the LORD's servants, and the righteousness that they shall have of me, sayeth the LORD.

¹⁸ Then said they, "Come, let us imagine something against this Jeremiah." Yea, this did even the priests, to whom the law was committed: the Senators, that were the wisest: and the prophets, which wanted not the word of God. "Come," said they, "let us cut out his tongue, and let us not regard his words."

⁵ even so the tongue is little member and boasteth great things. Behold how great a thing a little fire kindleth, ⁶ and the tongue is fire, and a world of wickedness. So is the tongue set among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth afire all that we have of nature, and is itself set afire, even of hell. ⁷ All the natures of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and things of the sea, are meeked and tamed of the nature of man. ⁸ But the tongue can no man tame. It is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.