New Revised Standard Version
Those who guard their mouths preserve their lives; those who open wide their lips come to ruin.

Contemporary English Version
Keep what you know to yourself, and you will be safe; talk too much, and you are done for.

New American Bible
Those who guard their mouths preserve themselves; those who open wide their lips bring ruin.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his soul: but he that hath no guard on his speech shall meet with evils.

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

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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 21:23 He that keepeth his mouth and his tongue, keepeth his soul from distress.

Psalm 39:1 Unto the end, for Idithun himself, a canticle of David. [2] I said: I will take heed to my ways: that I sin not with my tongue. I have set a guard to my mouth, when the sinner stood against me.

Matthew 12:36,37 But I say unto you, that every idle word that men shall speak, they shall render an account for it in the day of judgment. . . .

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 3:2-12 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. . . .