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Debate your case with your neighbor,
    and don’t betray the confidence of another,
10     lest one who hears it put you to shame,
    and your bad reputation never depart.

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Debate thy cause with thy neighbor himself,
[a]And disclose not the secret of another;
10 Lest he that heareth it revile thee,
And thine infamy turn not away.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 25:9 Or, But

17 Let your foot be seldom in your neighbor’s house,
    lest he be weary of you, and hate you.
18 A man who gives false testimony against his neighbor
    is like a club, a sword, or a sharp arrow.

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17 Let thy foot be seldom in thy neighbor’s house,
Lest he be [a]weary of thee, and hate thee.
18 A man that beareth false witness against his neighbor
Is a maul, and a sword, and a sharp arrow.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 25:17 Hebrew full of thee.