Wisdom 1:10–16
10because a jealous ear listens to all things, and the noise of murmurings is not hidden.↗
11Beware then of unprofitable murmuring, and keep your tongue from slander; because no secret utterance will go on its way void, and a lying mouth destroys a soul.↗
12Don’t court death in the error of your life. Don’t draw destruction upon yourselves by the works of your hands;↗
13because God didn’t make death, neither does he delight when the living perish.↗
14For he created all things that they might have being. The generative powers of the world are wholesome, and there is no poison of destruction in them, nor has Hades royal dominion upon earth;↗
15for righteousness is immortal,↗
16but ungodly men by their hands and their words summon death; deeming him a friend they pined away. They made a covenant with him, because they are worthy to belong with him.↗
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