10
Have you heard something? Let it die with you. Be brave, it will not make you burst!
11
Having heard something, the fool suffers birth pangs like a woman in labor with a child.
12
Like an arrow stuck in a person's thigh, so is gossip inside a fool.
13
Question a friend; perhaps he did not do it; or if he did, so that he may not do it again.
14
Question a neighbor; perhaps he did not say it; or if he said it, so that he may not repeat it.
New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright 1989, 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.