Sirach 5:14-15

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

¹⁴Do not be called double-tongued^[a]
and do not lay traps with your tongue;
for shame comes to the thief,
and severe condemnation to the double-tongued.
¹⁵In great and small matters cause no harm,^[b]

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Footnotes

Sirach 5:14 Heb: Gk a slanderer
Sirach 5:15 Heb Syr: Gk be ignorant

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