Proverbs 18:5-11

⁵Acceptance of the face of the wicked is not good, To turn aside the righteous in judgment.

⁶The lips of a fool enter into strife, And his mouth for stripes calleth.

⁷The mouth of a fool is ruin to him, And his lips are the snare of his soul.

⁸The words of a tale-bearer are as self-inflicted wounds, And they have gone down to the inner parts of the heart.

⁹He also that is remiss in his work, A brother he is to a destroyer.

¹⁰A tower of strength is the name of Jehovah, Into it the righteous runneth, and is set on high.

¹¹The wealth of the rich is the city of his strength, And as a wall set on high in his own imagination.