A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends.

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

Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out: so where there is no talebearer, the strife ceaseth.

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