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Those who won’t guard your secrets are cruel, and they won’t spare you from mistreatment and imprisonment.
If thou be invited by one that is mightier, withdraw thyself: for so he will invite thee the more.
If a person does not keep confidences, he is cruel; he will not hesitate to hurt you or have you put in jail.
Mercilessly they will make you a laughingstock, and will not refrain from injury or chains.
Those who do not keep your secrets are cruel, and they will not spare you injury or imprisonment.
Cruel are those who do not keep your secrets; they will not spare you harm or imprisonment.
Cruel are those who do not keep your secrets; they will not spare you harm or imprisonment.
Cruel are those who do not keep your secrets; they will not spare you harm or imprisonment.
Cruel are those who do not keep your secrets; they will not spare you harm or imprisonment.
Cruel is he who does not keep words to himself; he will not hesitate to injure or to imprison.
Cruel is he who does not keep words to himself; he will not hesitate to injure or to imprison.
His cruel soul shall keep thy words, and he shall not spare of malice, and of bonds. [And he shall (al)together keep thy words, and not spare from malice, and from bonds.]
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