Psalm 120

I call on the Lord in my distress,
    and he answers me.
Save me, Lord,
    from lying lips
    and from deceitful tongues.

What will he do to you,
    and what more besides,
    you deceitful tongue?
He will punish you with a warrior’s sharp arrows,
    with burning coals of the broom bush.

I'm probably taking this out of context but yolo.

I imagine most read this with a view that he's talking about other people and their lying lips, but I'm viewing this more as a war with oneself. How you can want to "pluck out your own eye."

I mean James discusses just how hard it is to control the tongue, how easily we create our own narrative and start talking, saying things we ought not to say, breaking trust with people. 

I dunno. Maybe David's problem was he was too busy looking outside himself and getting frustrated with other people rather than looking at himself and fixing what was there. Maybe the classic case of complaining about the thing in others that you do all the time...🤷🏾‍♂️