Musar for Sotah 69:4
פתח יהושע דקא משתעי אמרי ליה דין ראש קטיעה ימלל
And Caleb stilled [wa-yahas] the people concerning Moses<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ibid. 30. I.e., he silenced them to hear something about Moses. E.V. 'before'. ');"><sup>7</sup></span> — Rabbah said, [It means] that he won them over [hissithan] with words. When Joshua began to address them, they said to him, 'Would this person with the lopped-off head<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' An allusion to the fact that he was childless. What interest could he have in the conquest since he had no children to possess the land! (Rashi). ');"><sup>8</sup></span>
Mesilat Yesharim
David, because he referred to the words of Torah as "songs", was punished by the calamity of Uza and his joy was muted (Sotah 35a).
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Shemirat HaLashon
We also find that the spies, because of the sin of lashon hara, died an unnatural death, as it is written (Sotah 35a) (Bamidbar 14:37): "And they died, the men who had uttered an evil report of the land, etc." R. Shimon b. Lakish said: "They died an unnatural death." And it is stated there in the Gemara: "We are hereby taught that their tongues descended to their navels, and worms left their mouths onto their tongues, and from their tongues they descended to their navels."
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