Then she bore yet another son and named him Shelah. Judah was living in Kezib when she bore him.

You shall not go around as a gossip among your people, and you are not to act against the life of your neighbor [with slander or false testimony]; I am the Lord.

And the name of the Midianitish woman that was slain was Cozbi, the daughter of Zur; he was head over a people, and of a chief house in Midian.

For they vex you with their wiles, wherewith they have beguiled you in the matter of Peor, and in the matter of Cozbi, the daughter of a prince of Midian, their sister, which was slain in the day of the plague for Peor's sake.

and Jokim, and the men of Cozeba, and Joash, and Saraph, who had dominion in Moab, and Jashubilehem. And the records are ancient.

Why from the womb do I not die? From the belly I have come forth and gasp!

You will be protected from malicious gossip, and will not be afraid of the destruction when it comes.

Who is he that doth strive with me? For now I keep silent and gasp.

I have heard the gossip of many;
terror is on every side.
When they conspired against me,
they plotted to take my life.

And when one comes to see me, he speaks empty words,
While his heart gathers malicious gossip [against me];
When he goes away, he tells it [everywhere].

When I dressed in sackcloth, I became an object of gossip among them.

Those who sit at the city gate gossip about me; drunkards mock me in their songs.

For they have persecuted him whom You have struck,
And they tell of the pain of those whom You have pierced and wounded.

Though nobles take their seat and gossip about me, your servant will meditate on your statutes.

A gossip walks [about] telling a secret, but the trustworthy in spirit keeps [the] matter.

A worthless person concocts evil gossip his lips are like a burning fire.

A contrary man spreads conflict,
and a gossip separates close friends.

A gossip’s words are like choice food
that goes down to one’s innermost being.

He reveals a secret, he who walks [about with] gossip, and do not associate with a babbler's lips.

Without wood, fire goes out;
without a gossip, conflict dies down.

A gossip’s words are like choice food
that goes down to one’s innermost being.

She looks well to how things go in her household,
And does not eat the bread of idleness.

I have long time holden my peace; I have been still, and refrained myself: now will I cry out like a travailing woman; I will gasp and pant together.

And wild asses stand on [the] barren heights, they gasp [for] breath like the jackals. Their eyes fail because there is no vegetation."

For I have heard the gossip of many people,
“Terror is on every side!
Report him; let’s report him!”
Everyone I trusted watches for my fall.
“Perhaps he will be deceived
so that we might prevail against him
and take our vengeance on him.”

therefore prophesy and say, ‘Thus says the Lord God, “For good reason they have made you a desolation, and they crushed you from every side so that you would become a possession of the rest of the nations and you have become the talk and the whispering of the people.”’”

and entreated him importunately, saying, My little daughter is at the last gasp; wilt thou come, and lay thy hands upon her, that she may recover, and she shall live.

For I am afraid that perhaps when I come I may find you not to be as I wish, and that you may find me not as you wish—that perhaps there may be strife, jealousy, angry tempers, disputes, slander, gossip, arrogance and disorder;

Teach the older women, too, to be reverent in their behavior, and not to gossip or be slaves of drink, but to be teachers of what is right,