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for some one has heard you and watched you, and when the time comes he will hate you.
10
Have you heard a word? Let it die with you. Be brave! It will not make you burst!
11
With such a word a fool will suffer pangs like a woman in labor with a child.
12
Like an arrow stuck in the flesh of the thigh, so is a word inside a fool.
13
Question a friend, perhaps he did not do it; but if he did anything, so that he may do it no more.
Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.