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

Cast out the scorner, and contention shall go out; yea, strife and reproach shall cease.

And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.

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