He who does so grows no richer; he who wastes the little he has will be stripped bare. Wine and women make the mind giddy, and the companion of harlots becomes reckless. Rottenness and worms will possess him, for contumacious desire destroys its owner.
He who lightly trusts in them has no sense, and he who strays after them sins against his own life. He who gloats over evil will meet with evil, and he who repeats an evil report has no sense.
Never repeat gossip, and you will not be reviled. Tell nothing to friend or foe; if you have a fault, reveal it not, for he who hears it will hold it against you, and in time become your enemy.
Let anything you hear die within you; be assured it will not make you burst. When a fool hears something, he is in labor, like a woman giving birth to a child. Like an arrow lodged in a man's thigh is gossip in the breast of a fool.
All wisdom is fear of the LORD; perfect wisdom is the fulfillment of the law.
There are those with little understanding who fear God, and those of great intelligence who violate the law.
Sirach 19:1-12, 20, 24
He who lightly trusts in them has no sense, and he who strays after them sins against his own life. He who gloats over evil will meet with evil, and he who repeats an evil report has no sense.
Never repeat gossip, and you will not be reviled. Tell nothing to friend or foe; if you have a fault, reveal it not, for he who hears it will hold it against you, and in time become your enemy.
Let anything you hear die within you; be assured it will not make you burst. When a fool hears something, he is in labor, like a woman giving birth to a child. Like an arrow lodged in a man's thigh is gossip in the breast of a fool.
All wisdom is fear of the LORD; perfect wisdom is the fulfillment of the law.
There are those with little understanding who fear God, and those of great intelligence who violate the law.
Sirach 19:1-12, 20, 24