Proverbs
Chapters 18:5-11
New International Version
5It is not good to be partial to the wicked and so deprive the innocent of justice.
6The lips of fools bring them strife, and their mouths invite a beating.
7The mouths of fools are their undoing, and their lips are a snare to their very lives.
8The words of a gossip are like choice morsels; they go down to the inmost parts.
9One who is slack in his work is brother to one who destroys.
10The name of the Lord is a fortified tower; the righteous run to it and are safe.
11The wealth of the rich is their fortified city; they imagine it a wall too high to scale.