Ben Sira 19:8-12
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
8 Tell nothing to friend or foe;
and unless it be a sin for you, do not reveal a thing.(A)
9 For someone may have heard you and watched you,
and in time come to hate you.
10 Let anything you hear die with you;
never fear, it will not make you burst!
11 Having heard something, the fool goes into labor,
like a woman giving birth to a child.
12 Like an arrow stuck in a fool’s thigh,
so is gossip in the belly of a fool.
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