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Sirach 28:12-14
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
Sirach 28:12-14
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
The Evil Tongue
12 If you blow on a spark, it will glow;
if you spit on it, it will be put out;
yet both come out of your mouth.
13 Curse the gossips and the double-tongued,
for they destroy the peace of many.
14 Slander[a] has shaken many,
and scattered them from nation to nation;
it has destroyed strong cities,
and overturned the houses of the great.
Footnotes
- Sirach 28:14 Gk A third tongue
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