And if someone of them comes to see me, he speaks falsely. He stores up evil in his heart, then he goes out and chatters.
A perverse person sows strife, and a gossip separates close friends.
For I am afraid that perhaps when I come, I may find you not as I wish, or I may be found by you not as you wish—that there may be strife, envy, outbursts of anger, self-seeking disputes, lashon ha-ra , gossip, arrogance, unruly commotions.
They became filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, evil. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice. They are gossips,
Then the Pharisees went and plotted how they might trap Him with a word.
Without wood a fire goes out; without gossip quarrels cease.
I am as forgotten as a dead man. I have become like a broken vessel.