Don’t take a matter to court hastily.(A)
Otherwise, what will you do afterward
if your opponent[a] humiliates you?
Make your case with your opponent[b]
without revealing another’s secret;(B)
10 otherwise, the one who hears will disgrace you,
and you’ll never live it down.[c]

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 25:8 Or neighbor
  2. Proverbs 25:9 Or neighbor
  3. Proverbs 25:10 Lit and your evil report will not turn back

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