Proverbs 18:7-9

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

⁷The mouths of fools are their ruin,
    and their lips a snare to themselves.
⁸The words of a whisperer are like delicious morsels;
    they go down into the inner parts of the body.
⁹One who is slack in work
    is close kin to a vandal.

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