Job 15:5-6
15:5 Your sin inspires your mouth;
you choose the language of the crafty.
15:6 Your own mouth condemns you, not I;
your own lips testify against you.
Job 34:35
34:35 that Job speaks without knowledge
and his words are without understanding.
Job 35:16
35:16 So Job opens his mouth to no purpose;
without knowledge he multiplies words.”
Proverbs 10:19
10:19 When words abound, transgression is inevitable,
but the one who restrains his words is wise.
Isaiah 6:5
6:5 I said, “Too bad for me! I am destroyed, for my lips are contaminated by sin, and I live among people whose lips are contaminated by sin. My eyes have seen the king, the Lord who commands armies.”
Matthew 12:36-37
12:36 I
tell you that on the day of judgment, people will give an account for every worthless word they speak.
12:37 For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.”
James 3:2
3:2 For we all stumble
in many ways. If someone does not stumble
in what he says,
he is a perfect individual,
able to control the entire body as well.