8. Tell nothing to friend or foe;and unless it be a sin for you, do not reveal a thing.
9. For someone may have heard you and watched you,and in time come to hate you.
10. Let anything you hear die with you;never fear, it will not make you burst!
11. Having heard something, the fool goes into labor,like a woman giving birth to a child.
12. Like an arrow stuck in a fool’s thigh,so is gossip in the belly of a fool.
13. Admonish your friend—he may not have done it;and if he did, that he may not do it again.
14. Admonish your neighbor—he may not have said it;and if he did, that he may not say it again.
15. Admonish your friend—often it may be slander;do not believe every story.
16. Then, too, a person can slip and not mean it;who has not sinned with his tongue?
17. Admonish your neighbor before you break with him;and give due place to the Law of the Most High.