the speech of the trusty.

Proverbs 10:21
The lips of the righteous feed many, but fools die for lack of judgment.

Proverbs 12:19, 22
Truthful lips endure forever, but a lying tongue lasts only a moment. . . .

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Job 12:24
He deprives the earth's leaders of reason, and makes them wander a trackless wasteland.

Job 17:4
You have closed their minds to understanding; therefore You will not exalt them.

Job 32:9
It is not only the old who are wise, or the elderly who understand justice.

Job 39:17
For God has deprived her of wisdom; He has not endowed her with understanding.

Isaiah 3:1-3
For behold, the Lord GOD of Hosts is about to remove from Jerusalem and Judah both supply and support: the whole supply of bread and water, . . .