Saturday, May 28, 2011

Betraying Secrets

Sirach 27:16-21
If you repeat secrets that have been told to you,
you are destroying the confidence others have in you,
and you will never have a close friend.
Respect your friends, and keep faith with them. 
If you do betray a friend's confidence,
you may as well forget you have a friend.

You have killed that friendship just as surely as if
you had taken a weapon and killed an enemy.
Your friend is gone. You can no more get him back
than you can get a bird to come back to your hand once you let it go.
Don't bother going after him. It's too late.
He is gone, like a dear escaped from a trap.

Wounds can be bandaged an insults can be forgiven,
 but if you betray a confidence,
 it is hopeless.

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