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Sirach 28:12-14
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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.(A)

13 Curse the gossips and the double-tongued,
    for they destroy the peace of many.(B)
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.

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  1. 28.14 Gk A third tongue
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