As the crucible is for silver and the furnace is for gold, so a person is proved by the praise he receives.

If you have done foolishly by exalting yourself or if you have planned evil, put your hand over your mouth!

Open your mouth on behalf of those unable to speak, for the legal rights of all the dying.

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

She opens her mouth with wisdom, and loving instruction is on her tongue.

Acquire wisdom, acquire understanding; do not forget and do not turn aside from the words I speak.

The fear of the Lord is to hate evil; I hate arrogant pride and the evil way and perverse utterances.

when he gave the sea his decree that the waters should not pass over his command, when he marked out the foundations of the earth,

A person will be satisfied with good from the fruit of his words, and the work of his hands will be rendered to him.

The words of a person’s mouth are like deep waters, and the fountain of wisdom is like a flowing brook.

The sluggard plunges his hand in the dish, and he will not even bring it back to his mouth!

Train a child in the way that he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it.

This is the way of an adulterous woman: she eats and wipes her mouth and says, “I have not done wrong.”