The tongue is a difficult member to control and has tremendous potentialities for both good and evil (James 3:1-10). A tongue permitted to utter a multitude of words is in danger of leading its owner into many forms of sin. Exaggeration frequently accompanies verbosity, and exaggeration is a falsification of truth. Scandal and defamation are not far from one who talks much and seeks to make a sensation. The wise man screens carefully everything that he says, and remembers that one day he will have to give account for his words (see Eccl. 5:1-3; Matt. 12:36; James 3:2; 4T 331).