⁶ A fool’s lips come into strife,
    and his mouth invites beatings.
⁷ A fool’s mouth is his destruction,
    and his lips are a snare to his soul.
⁸ The words of a gossip are like dainty morsels:
    they go down into a person’s innermost parts.

¹³ He who answers before he hears,
    that is folly and shame to him.