Sirach 19:11-13

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

¹¹ At the hearing of a word the fool is in travail, as a woman groaning. in the bringing forth a child.

¹² As an arrow that sticketh in a man's thigh: so is a word in the heart of a fool.

¹³ Reprove a friend, lest he may not have understood, and say: I did it not: or if he did it, that he may do it no more.