do not bring[a] hastily to court,
for what will you do in the end
    if your neighbor puts you to shame?(A)

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 25:8 Or nobles / on whom you had set your eyes. / Do not go

Go not forth hastily to strive, lest thou know not what to do in the end thereof, when thy neighbour hath put thee to shame.

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If you take your neighbor to court,
    do not betray another’s confidence,

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Debate thy cause with thy neighbour himself; and discover not a secret to another:

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