Sirach 19:9-12 World English Bible (WEB)

9. For he has heard you, and observed you, And when the time comes he will hate you.

10. Hast you heard a word? let it die with you: Be of good courage, it will not burst you.

11. A fool will travail in pain with a word, As a woman in labor with a child.

12. As an arrow that sticks in the flesh of the thigh, So is a word in a fool’s belly.

Sirach 19