19:7 Never repeat gossip, and no one will reproach you.
19:8 Tell nothing to friend or foe; and unless it be a sin for you, do not reveal a thing.
19:9 For someone may have heard you and watched you, and in time come to hate you.
19:10 Let anything you hear die with you; never fear, it will not make you burst!
19:11 Having heard something, the fool goes into labor, like a woman giving birth to a child.
19:12 Like an arrow stuck in a fool’s thigh, so is gossip in the belly of a fool.
19:13 Admonish your friend—he may not have done it; and if he did, that he may not do it again.
19:14 Admonish your neighbor—he may not have said it; and if he did, that he may not say it again.
19:15 Admonish your friend—often it may be slander; do not believe every story.
19:16 Then, too, a person can slip and not mean it; who has not sinned with his tongue?
19:17 Admonish your neighbor before you break with him; and give due place to the Law of the Most High.
19:20 All wisdom is fear of the Lord; and in all wisdom, the observance of the Law.
19:22 The knowledge of wickedness is not wisdom, nor is there prudence in the counsel of sinners.
19:23 There is a shrewdness that is detestable, while the fool may be free from sin.
19:24 Better are the God-fearing who have little understanding than those of great intelligence who violate the Law.
19:25 There is a shrewdness keen but dishonest, and there are those who are duplicitous to win a judgment.
19:26 There is the villain bowed in grief, but full of deceit within.
19:27 He hides his face and pretends not to hear, but when not observed, he will take advantage of you:
19:28 Even if his lack of strength keeps him from sinning, when he finds the right time he will do harm.
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