⁶ The lips of a fool will bring strife,
    and his mouth calls out for a flogging.
⁷ The mouth of a fool is ruin to him,
    and his lips are a snare to his soul.^[a]
8 The words of a whisper are like delicious morsels,
    and they themselves go down to inner parts of the body.

¹³ He who returns a word before he will hear,
    folly itself belongs to him as well as^[a] shame.