10. Because there is an ear of jealousy that listens to all things, And the noise of murmurings is not hid.
11. Beware then of unprofitable murmuring, And refrain your tongue from backbiting; Because no secret utterance shall go on its way void, And a mouth that belies destroys a soul.
12. Court not death in the error of your life; Neither draw upon yourselves destruction by the works of your hands:
13. Because God made not death; Neither delights he when the living perish:
14. For he created all things that they might have being: And the generative powers of the world are healthsome, And there is no poison of destruction in them: Nor has Hades royal dominion upon earth,
15. For righteousness is immortal: