Ben Sira 19:9-13 New American Bible, Revised Edition (NABRE)

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.

13. Admonish your friend—he may not have done it;and if he did, that he may not do it again.

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