New Revised Standard Version
To watch over mouth and tongue is to keep out of trouble.

Contemporary English Version
Watching what you say can save you a lot of trouble.

New American Bible
Those who guard mouth and tongue guard themselves from trouble.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He that keepeth his mouth and his tongue, keepeth his soul from distress.

He that keepeth his mouth and his tongue, keepeth his soul from distress.

Proverbs 10:19 The tongue of the just is as choice silver: but the heart of the wicked is nothing worth.

Proverbs 12:13 For the sins of the lips ruin draweth nigh to the evil man: but the just shall escape out of distress.

Proverbs 13:3 He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his soul: but he that hath no guard on his speech shall meet with evils.

Proverbs 17:27,28 He that setteth bounds to his words, is knowing and wise: and the man of understanding is of a precious spirit. . . .

Proverbs 18:21 Death and life are in the power of the tongue: they that love it, shall eat the fruits thereof.

James 1:26 And if any man think himself to be religious, not bridling his tongue but deceiving his own heart, this man's religion is vain.

James 3:2-13 For in many things we all offend. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man. He is able also with a bridle to lead about the whole body. . . .