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.
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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