Admonish a friend, it may be he has not done it: and if he have done it, that he do it no more. Admonish your friend, it may be he has not said it: and if he have, that he speak it not again. Admonish a friend: for many times it is a slander, and believe not every tale. SIRACH (ECCLESIASTICUS) 19:13-15 את CEPHER