A Babbler.

Ecclesiastes 10:11
“SURELY a serpent will bite without enchantment; and a babbler is no better.” (Ecclesiastes 10:1111Surely the serpent will bite without enchantment; and a babbler is no better. (Ecclesiastes 10:11).) A serpent bites because it is a serpent; it wants an opportunity rather than a provocation; it is its nature. So, whatever may be a babbler’s pretext, however pressing he may urge the reason to be why he “ought” to speak his mind or “discharge his conscience” with respect to others’ failings, he babbles because he is a babbler. “God is not mocked,” and knows how to distinguish between the exercise of a Christian grace and the indulgence of a carnal prosperity, if I do not.