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Proverbs 18:8

Modern King James Version

The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.

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Your tongue devises evil, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

There are those who speak like the thrusts of a sword, but the tongue of the wise heals.

A perverse man causes fighting, and a whisperer separates chief friends.

A fool's mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul.

Also he who is slack in his work is brother to a great destroyer.

You shall not go as a slanderer among your people; you shall not stand against the blood of your neighbor. I am Jehovah.