If you hear a rumor, let it die in your heart and reveal it not to another, lest it become a live coal and burn your tongue and cause a pain in your body and you gain a reproach and are shamed before the Most High and before men.
If this would be applied for today, then a lot of people would burn their tongues.
Aspire to live quietly, and to mind your own affairs, and to work with your hands, as we instructed you. 1 Thessalonians 4:11
This is what I am trying to do, but the world is loud around me.