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Besides, they also learn to be idle, going about from house to house. Not only idle, but also gossips and busybodies, saying things which they ought not.
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Verse 13. Idle, and so forth He shews by what steps they fall. Neglecting their prayers, they give themselves to idleness; they go about visiting from house to house; they are carried away with curiosity to hear what passes, and speak what they ought not of their neighbour’s faults. Witham.—The young widow that bears a near resemblance with this portrait, is not less to be lamented on her own account than feared and shunned on account of others.
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