Study Desk

You will be protected from malicious gossip, and will not be afraid of the destruction when it comes.

Those who sit at the city gate gossip about me; drunkards mock me in their songs.

A perverse person spreads dissension, and a gossip separates the closest friends.

The words of a gossip are like choice morsels; they go down into the person's innermost being.

Where there is no wood, a fire goes out, and where there is no gossip, contention ceases.

The words of a gossip are like delicious morsels; they go down into a person's innermost being.

So prophesy and say: ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: Surely because they have made you desolate and crushed you from all directions, so that you have become the property of the rest of the nations, and have become the subject of gossip and slander among the people,

For I am afraid that somehow when I come I will not find you what I wish, and you will find me not what you wish. I am afraid that somehow there may be quarreling, jealousy, intense anger, selfish ambition, slander, gossip, arrogance, and disorder.