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For (A)it is better that it be said to you, “Come up here,”
Than for you to be placed lower in the presence of a noble,
Whom your eyes have seen.

Do not go out (B)hastily to plead your case;
Lest, what will you do in [a]the end,
When your neighbor humiliates you?
(C)Plead your case with your neighbor,
And (D)do not reveal the secret of another,

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  1. Proverbs 25:8 Lit its

it is better for him to say to you, “Come up here,”(A)
    than for him to humiliate you before his nobles.

What you have seen with your eyes
    do not bring[a] hastily to court,
for what will you do in the end
    if your neighbor puts you to shame?(B)

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

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