Proverbs 18:8

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The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.

There is one who speaks rashly like the thrusts of a sword,
But the tongue of the wise brings healing.

A perverse man spreads strife,
And a slanderer separates intimate friends.

For lack of wood the fire goes out,
And where there is no whisperer, contention quiets down.

You shall not go about as a slanderer among your people, and you are not to act against the

life of your neighbor; I am the Lord.

Your tongue devises destruction,
Like a sharp razor, O worker of deceit.

Who have sharpened their tongue like a sword.
They aimed bitter speech as their arrow,

and charges her with shameful deeds and publicly defames her, and says, ‘I took this woman, but when I came near her, I did not find her a virgin,’

David said to Saul, “Why do you listen to the words of men, saying, ‘Behold, David seeks to harm you’?