1)

What is the meaning of "Mah Yiten Lecha"?

1.

Rashi: What will Hashem give to you, the tongue [to stop you from slandering]?

2.

Rashi (4, from Bereishis Rabah 98:23): What will Hashem decree about you in the end? Refer to 120:4:1:2.

3.

Radak: The slander of those who make false accusations against Yisrael in Galus - what will it help you?

4.

Malbim: What benefit do you get from your Leshon ha'Ra? (When the Chayos ask the snake, what Hana'ah do you get from killing, it answers, what Hana'ah does a Ba'al Leshon ha'Ra get? - Erchin 15b).

2)

What is the question "u'Mah Yosif Lecha"?

1.

Rashi and Radak, from Erchin 15b): What guarding and walls can He add for you (the tongue)? You are [already] within two walls (the teeth and lips)! All other limbs are erect and external, and you lie down inside walls of bone and flesh, and still you speak evil!

2.

Radak: Refer to 120:3:1:3.

3.

Malbim: What will your Leshon ha'Ra add to what you already have?

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