²⁸ A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends.

²⁰ Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out: so where there is no talebearer, the strife ceaseth.

⁸ The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.

⁵ A man that flattereth his neighbour spreadeth a net for his feet.

²³ He that rebuketh a man afterwards shall find more favour than he that flattereth with the tongue.