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Vulgate (Latin)   
labia inprudentium stulta narrabunt verba autem prudentium statera ponderabuntur

King James Variants

Other translations
New Catholic Bible   
A scandal-monger degrades himself and earns the hatred of his neighbors.
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition   
A whisperer degrades himself and is hated in his neighborhood.
Good News Translation®   
A gossip ruins his own character, and everyone in the neighborhood hates him.
Wycliffe Bible   
A privy backbiter shall defoul his soul, and in all things he shall be hated, and he that dwelleth, shall be hated; a still man and wise shall be honoured.
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition   
A whisperer defiles his own soul and is hated in his neighborhood.
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition   
Whisperers degrade themselves and are hated in their neighborhoods.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition   
A whisperer degrades himself and is hated in his neighbourhood.
Common English Bible © 2011   
Those who whisper stain themselves, and they will be hated by their neighbors.
New American Bible (Revised Edition)   
Slanderers sully themselves, and are hated by their neighbors.
Revised Standard Version   
A whisperer defiles his own soul and is hated in his neighborhood.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised   
A whisperer degrades himself and is hated in his neighbourhood.