OLD TESTAMENT

Sirach 5:14

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Don’t be called a whisperer. Don’t lie in wait with your tongue; for shame is on the thief, and an evil condemnation is on him who has a double tongue.

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Verse 14. Lest. Greek “honour and infamy is in speech; and the tongue of man proves his ruin.” Bible.—Nothing can be productive of better or of worse consequences. Proverbs 18:21. Calmet.

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