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I have heard the gossip of many; terror is on every side. When they conspired against me, they plotted to take my life.

A gossip goes around revealing a secret, but a trustworthy person keeps a confidence.

A contrary man spreads conflict, and a gossip separates close friends.

The one who reveals secrets is a constant gossip; avoid someone with a big mouth.

Without wood, fire goes out; without a gossip, conflict dies down.

For I have heard the gossip of many people, "Terror is on every side! Report him; let's report him!" Everyone I trusted watches for my fall. "Perhaps he will be deceived so that we might prevail against him and take our vengeance on him."

therefore, prophesy and say: This is what the Lord God says: Because they have made you desolate and have trampled you from every side, so that you became a possession for the rest of the nations and an object of people's gossip and slander,

For I fear that perhaps when I come I will not find you to be what I want, and I may not be found by you to be what you want; there may be quarreling, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambitions, slander, gossip, arrogance, and disorder.