Sirach 28:21–27

²¹The stroke of a whip maketh a blue mark: but the stroke of the tongue will break the bones.

²²Many have fallen by the edge of the sword, but not so many as have perished by their own tongue.

²³Blessed is he that is defended from a wicked tongue, that hath not passed into the wrath thereof, and that hath not drawn the yoke thereof, and hath not been bound in its bands.

²⁴For its yoke is a yoke of iron: and its bands are bands of brass.

²⁵The death thereof is a most evil death: and hell is preferable to it.

²⁶Its continuance shall not be for a long time, but it shall possess the ways of the unjust: and the just shall not be burnt with its flame.

²⁷They that forsake God shall fall into it, and it shall burn in them, and shall not be quenched, and it shall be sent upon them as a lion, and as a leopard it shall tear them.