5
Turn away from me vain hopes and concupiscence, and thou shalt hold him up that is desirous always to serve thee.
6
Let not the greediness of the belly nor lust of the flesh take hold of me; and give not over me thy servant into an impudent mind.
7
Hear, O ye children, the discipline of the mouth: he that keepeth it shall never be taken in his lips.
8
The sinner shall be left in his foolishness: both the evil speaker and the proud shall fall thereby.
9
Accustom not thy mouth to swearing; neither use thyself to the naming of the Holy One.
10
For as a servant that is continually beaten shall not be without a blue mark: so he that sweareth and nameth God continually shall not be faultless.
11
A man that useth much swearing shall be filled with iniquity, and the plague shall never depart from his house: if he shall offend, his sin shall be upon him: and if he acknowledge not his sin, he maketh a double offence: and if he swear in vain, he shall not be innocent, but his house shall be full of calamities.
12
There is a word that is clothed about with death: God grant that it be not found in the heritage of Jacob; for all such things shall be far from the godly, and they shall not wallow in their sins.
13
Use not thy mouth to intemperate swearing, for therein is the word of sin.
14
Remember thy father and thy mother, when thou sittest among great men. Be not forgetful before them, and so thou by thy custom become a fool, and wish that thou hadst not been born, and curse they day of thy nativity
15
The man that is accustomed to opprobrious words will never be reformed all the days of his life.