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25 Thou hast also made our words powerful and great, even that we cannot write them; wherefore, when we write we behold our weakness, and stumble because of the placing of our words; and I fear lest the Gentiles shall mock at our words.
26 And when I had said this, the Lord spake unto me, saying: Fools mock, but they shall mourn; and my grace is sufficient for the meek, that they shall take no advantage of your weakness;

(Ether 12:25-26)

The word silk is used twice in the King James Version of the Old Testament, once to translate the Hebrew word sheshee, which was likely a fine linen (Prov. 31:22), and the other to translate the Hebrew word meshee, which likely refers to traditional silk (Ezek. 16:10).(Book of Mormon Reference Companion)

A fine, lustrous cloth. The word "silk" or "silks" occurs six times in the Book of Mormon, always together with "fine" or "-fine- twined linen." Among the Nephites and Jaredites silk was a sign of prosperity (Alma 1:29; Ether 9:17; 10:24), and along with Nephite costly apparel , a symbol of pride and worldliness (Alma 4:6; cf. Jacob 2:13; Alma 5:53; 4 Ne. 1:24). Silk is also listed as one of the lustful desires of the great and abominable church (1 Ne. 13:7, 8)

The term may be used to describe a number of different cloths known in the New World. It is likely that "silk" in the Book of Mormon refers to a fine cloth made from materials native to the New World. For example, early Spanish explorers recorded that the natives in Mexico gathered fibers from wild cocoons, a fiber from the pod of a tree (kapok), and a fiber of a wild pineapple plant, all of which were spun into fabrics described by the Spaniards as "silk" or "silk like."