Sirach 19:11-13

Revised Standard Version

¹¹With such a word a fool will suffer pangs
like a woman in labor with a child.
¹²Like an arrow stuck in the flesh of the thigh,
so is a word inside a fool.

¹³Question a friend, perhaps he did not do it;
but if he did anything, so that he may do it no more.

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