18ما يَلفِظُ مِن قَولٍ إِلّا لَدَيهِ رَقيبٌ عَتيدٌMuhammad Asadnot even a word can he utter but there is a watcher with him, ever-present.1I.e., his conscience, The "uttering of a word" is conceptually connected with the "whispering" within man's psyche spoken of in the preceding verse,