Ben Sira 19:10

10 Have you heard a rumor? Let it die with you. Be brave! It won't make you explode.

Ben Sira 19:10 In-Context

8 Don't tell it to your friends or your enemies unless it would be sinful to keep it to yourself.

9 Whoever hears you will take note of it, and sooner or later will hate you for it.

10 Have you heard a rumor? Let it die with you. Be brave! It won't make you explode.

11 A foolish person trying to keep a secret suffers like a woman in labor.

12 Any time he hears a secret, it's like an arrow stuck in his leg.