85. The Torah therefore proclaims, saying, "Keep your tongue from evil..." (Tehilim 34:14), and, "He who guards his mouth and his tongue..." (Mishlei 21: 23), since if his lips and tongue speak evil things, these things rise up, and when they do, everybody declares, 'Be gone from the proximity of the evil speech of so and so, give way to the path of the harsh serpent.' The holy Neshamah is then removed from him. It is gone and cannot speak, as it says, "I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, and had no comfort" (Tehilim 39:3).
85. וְעַל דָּא אוֹרַיְיתָא אַכְרִיזַת וְאַמְרַת, נְצוֹר לְשׁוֹנְךָ מֵרָע וְגוֹ,' וּכְתִיב שׁוֹמֵר פִּיו וּלְשׁוֹנוֹ וְגוֹ,' בְּגִין דְּאִי שִׁפְוָותֵיהּ וְלִישָׁנֵיהּ מְמַלְּלָן מִלִּין בִּישִׁין, אִינּוּן מִלִּין סַלְּקִין לְעֵילָּא, וּבְשַׁעֲתָא דְּסַלְּקִין, כֺּלָּא מַכְרִיזִין וְאָמְרִין אִסְתֵּלָקוּ מִסּוֹחֲרָנֵיהּ דְּמִלָּה בִּישָׁא דִּפְלַנְיָא, פְּנוּן אֲתַר לְאָרְחֵיהּ דְּחִוְיָא תַּקִּיפָא. כְּדֵין נִשְׁמְתָא קַדִּישָׁא אִתְעַבְּרָא מִנֵּיהּ וְאִסְתְּלָּקַת, וְלָא יַכְלָא לְמַלְּלָא, כד"א נֶאֱלַמְתִּי דּוּמִיָּה הֶחֱשֵׁיתִי מִטּוֹב.