19. But if you disclose his secrets, you should not continue to follow after him.
20. For like a man who destroys his friend, so also is he who destroys the friendship of his neighbor.
21. And like someone releasing a bird from his hand, so have you abandoned your neighbor, and you will not obtain him again.
22. You should no longer seek him, for he is now far away; he has fled like a roe-deer from a snare. For his soul has been wounded.
23. You will no longer be able to bind his wound. For there may be a reconciliation from cursing.
24. But to disclose the secrets of a friend is the hopeless act of an unhappy soul.
25. One who winks with the eye fabricates iniquity, and no one will cast him aside.
26. In the sight of your eyes, he will sweeten his mouth, and he will admire your talk. But at the very end, he will pervert his mouth, and he will offer a scandal from your own words.
27. I have hated many things, but I have not done as he has done, and the Lord will hate him.
28. Whoever throws a stone straight up will find that it falls on his own head. And a deceitful wound will return to wound the deceitful.