¹⁴ and laid against her actions of words, and brought out against her an evil name, and said, This woman I have taken, and I draw near unto her, and I have not found in her tokens of virginity:

¹⁶ `Thou dost not answer against thy neighbour a false testimony.

¹ `Thou dost not lift up a vain report; thou dost not put thy hand with a wicked man to be a violent witness.

¹⁹ and fined him a hundred silverlings, and given to the father of the damsel, because he hath brought out an evil name on a virgin of Israel, and she is to him for a wife, he is not able to send her away all his days.

⁸ The words of a tale-bearer `are' as self-inflicted wounds, And they have gone down `to' the inner parts of the heart.

²¹ Death and life `are' in the power of the tongue, And those loving it eat its fruit.

¹⁴ I wish, therefore, younger ones to marry, to bear children, to be mistress of the house, to give no occasion to the opposer to reviling;