Older women likewise are to exhibit behavior fitting for those who are holy, not slandering, not slaves to excessive drinking, but teaching what is good.

¹ “You must not give ²  a false report. ³  Do not make common cause ⁴  with the wicked ⁵  to be a malicious ⁶  witness.

But you even break off ¹  piety, ²  and hinder ³  meditation ⁴  before God.

For they do not try to make peace with others, ¹  but plan ways to deceive those who are unsuspecting. ² 

May those who say, “Aha! Aha!” be driven back ¹  and disgraced! ² 

They say, ¹  “God has abandoned him. Run and seize him, for there is no one who will rescue him!”

He does not fear bad news. He ¹  is confident; he trusts ²  in the Lord.

Though rulers plot and slander me, ¹  your servant meditates on your statutes.

Remove perverse speech ¹  from your mouth; ²  keep devious talk far from your lips. ³ 

The evil person is ensnared ¹  by the transgression of his speech, ²  but the righteous person escapes out of trouble. ³ 

A wicked scoundrel ¹  digs up ²  evil, and his slander ³  is like a scorching fire. ⁴ 

One who acts wickedly ¹  pays attention to evil counsel; ²  a liar listens ³  to a malicious tongue. ⁴ 

Do not be a witness against your neighbor without cause, ¹  and do not deceive with your words. ² 

lest the one who hears it put you to shame and your infamy ¹  will never go away.

She watches over ¹  the ways of her household, and does not eat the bread of idleness. ² 

ש (Sin/Shin) You have heard ¹  their taunts, O Lord, all their plots against me.

When Jesus entered the ruler’s house and saw the flute players and the disorderly crowd,

They came to the house of the synagogue ruler where ¹  he saw noisy confusion and people weeping and wailing loudly. ² 

Some have strayed from these and turned away to empty discussion.

unloving, irreconcilable, slanderers, without self-control, savage, opposed to what is good,