The words of a gossip are like choice morsels; they go down into the person’s innermost being.

The human spirit is like the lamp of the Lord, searching all his innermost parts.

Beatings and wounds cleanse away evil, and floggings cleanse the innermost being.

The words of a gossip are like delicious morsels; they go down into a person’s innermost being.

Their arrows will cut young men to ribbons; they have no compassion on a person’s offspring, they will not look with pity on children.

Jacob became furious with Rachel and exclaimed, “Am I in the place of God, who has kept you from having children?”

and this water that causes the curse will go into your stomach, and make your abdomen swell and your thigh rot.” Then the woman must say, “Amen, amen.”

“Listen to me, O family of Jacob, all you who are left from the family of Israel, you who have been carried from birth, you who have been supported from the time you left the womb.