Ecclesiasticus 20:18
“To slip vpon a pauement, is better then to slip with the tongue: so, the fall of the wicked shall come speedily.”
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Ecclesiasticus 20:18 Context
16The foole saith, I haue no friends, I haue no thanke for all my good deeds: and they that eate my bread speake euill of me. 17How oft, and of how many shall he be laughed to scorne? for hee knoweth not aright what it is to haue; and it is all one vnto him, as if he had it not. 18To slip vpon a pauement, is better then to slip with the tongue: so, the fall of the wicked shall come speedily. 19An vnseasonable tale will alwayes be in the mouth of the vnwise. 20A wise sentence shall be reiected when it commeth out of a fools mouth: for he will not speake it in due season.
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To slip upon a pavement is better than to slip with the tongue: so the fall of the wicked shall come speedily.
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