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A fool’s mouth is his destruction,
and his lips are a trap for his soul.[a]
The words of a gossip are like delicious food.
People gobble them right down.[b]
A person who fails to do his work
    is a brother to a vandal.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 18:7 Or his life
  2. Proverbs 18:8 Literally they go down to the rooms of the belly