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14 Don’t get a reputation
for being a slanderer,
        and don’t set traps for people
        with your speech,
    because shame comes to the thief,
        and terrible blame
        comes upon the deceitful.[a]
15 Don’t be ignorant in matters
large or small.

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Footnotes

  1. Sirach 5:14 LXX double-tongued

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