the Week of Proper 25 / Ordinary 30
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Proverbs 25:9
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Debate your cause with your neighbor [himself], And don't disclose the secret of another;
If you have an argument with your neighbor, don't tell other people what was said.
When you argue a case with your neighbor, do not reveal the secret of another person,
Debate thy cause with thy neighbor [himself]; and reveal not a secret to another:
Debate your case with your neighbor, And don't betray the confidence of another;
Argue your case with your neighbor himself [before you go to court]; And do not reveal another's secret,
Argue your case with your neighbor himself, and do not reveal another's secret,
Trete thi cause with thi frend, and schewe thou not priuyte to a straunge man;
Debate thy cause with thy neighbour himself, and disclose not the secret of another:
Argue your case with your neighbor without betraying another's confidence,
When you and someone else can't get along, don't gossip about it.
Debate thy cause with thy neighbor himself, And disclose not the secret of another;
Have a talk with your neighbour himself about your cause, but do not give away the secret of another:
Discuss your dispute with your neighbor, but don't reveal another person's secrets.
Debate thy cause with thy neighbour, but reveal not the secret of another;
If you want to tell your friends about your own problems, tell them. But don't discuss what someone told you in private.
Debate thy cause with thy neighbour, but reveal not the secret of another;
Debate thy cause with thy neighbour himselfe; and discouer not a secret to another:
Argue your side of the problem with your neighbor, but do not tell the secret of another.
Argue your case with your neighbor directly, and do not disclose another's secret;
Debate thy matter with thy neighbour, and discouer not the secret to another,
Debate your cause with your neighbor himself; and do not disclose the secret to another,
If you and your neighbor have a difference of opinion, settle it between yourselves and do not reveal any secrets.
Thy contention, urge thou with thy neighbour, and, the secret of another, do not reveal:
Treat thy cause with thy friend, and discover not the secret to a stranger:
Argue your case with your neighbor himself, and do not disclose another's secret;
Handle thy matter with thy neighbour himselfe, and discouer not thy secrete to another:
lest I be filled and become false, and say, Who sees me? or be poor and steal, and swear vainly by the name of God.
Make your case with your opponentwithout revealing another’s secret;
Debate your case with your neighbor, And don't betray the confidence of another;
Debate thy cause with thy neighbour himself; and discover not a secret to another:
Argue your argument with your neighbor himself, the secret of another do not disclose,
Contend for your cause with your neighbor, and do not uncover the secret of another,
Thy cause plead with thy neighbour, And the secret counsel of another reveal not,
Handle thy matter wt yi neghbor himself, & discouer not another mans secrete:
In the heat of an argument, don't betray confidences; Word is sure to get around, and no one will trust you.
Argue your case with your neighbor, And do not reveal the secret of another,
Debate your case with your neighbor, And do not disclose the secret to another;
Argue your case with your neighbor, And do not reveal the secret of another,
Plead your case with your neighbor,And do not reveal the secret of another,
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
with: Matthew 18:5-17
a secret to another: or, the secret of another, Proverbs 11:13, Proverbs 20:19
Reciprocal: Genesis 9:22 - told Genesis 21:25 - reproved Joshua 22:13 - Phinehas Judges 11:12 - sent messengers 2 Samuel 13:22 - spake Proverbs 3:30 - General Matthew 5:24 - there Matthew 18:15 - go Luke 12:58 - thou goest
Cross-References
His sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah, near Mamre, in the field of Ephron son of Zohar the Hittite.
This was the field Abraham had purchased from the Hittites and where he had buried his wife Sarah.
When Isaac was forty years old, he married Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan-aram and the sister of Laban the Aramean.
One day when Jacob was cooking some stew, Esau arrived home from the wilderness exhausted and hungry.
Esau said to Jacob, "I'm starved! Give me some of that red stew!" (This is how Esau got his other name, Edom, which means "red.")
Then he breathed his last and died at a ripe old age, joining his ancestors in death. And his sons, Esau and Jacob, buried him.
They carried his body to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave in the field of Machpelah, near Mamre. This is the cave that Abraham had bought as a permanent burial site from Ephron the Hittite.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Debate thy cause with thy neighbour [himself],.... Between thee and him alone; lay the matter before him, and hear what he has to say for himself, by which you will better judge of the nature of the cause; try to compromise things, and make up the difference between you, which is much better than to commence a lawsuit; at least such a step should be taken first; see Matthew 5:25;
and discover not a secret to another; if the thing in controversy is a secret, do not acquaint another person with it; keep it among yourselves, if the affair can be made up without bringing it into a court of judicature; besides, by communicating it to others, you may have bad counsel given, and be led to take indirect methods: or, "the secret of another", or, "another secret do not discover" b; if you know anything scandalous and reproachful of your neighbour and his family, you are contending with, which does not concern the cause in hand, do not divulge it, as persons from a spirit of revenge are apt to do, when they are quarrelling or litigating a point with each other.
b ס×× ××ר "secretum alterius", Pagninus, Montanus; "arcanum alterius", Tigurine version, Junius Tremellius, Piscator, Mercerus, Michaelis, Schultens, so Cocceius, Gejerus "arcanum aliud", Munster; "alienum", Syriac version.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
An anticipation of the highest standard of ethical refinement Matthew 18:15, but with a difference. Here the motive is prudential, the risk of shame, the fear of the irretrievable infamy of the betrayer of secrets. In the teaching of Christ the precept rests upon the divine authority and the perfect example.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Proverbs 25:9. Debate thy cause with thy neighbour — Take the advice of friends. Let both sides attend to their counsels; but do not tell the secret of thy business to any. After squandering your money away upon lawyers, both they and the judge will at last leave it to be settled by twelve of your fellow citizens! O the folly of going to law! O the blindness of men, and the rapacity of unprincipled lawyers!
On this subject I cannot but give the following extract from Sir John Hawkins's Life of Dr. Johnson, which he quotes from Mr. Selwin, of London: "A man who deliberates about going to law should have,
1. A good cause;
2. A good purse;
3. A good skilful attorney;
4. Good evidence;
5. Good able counsel;
6. A good upright judge;
7. A good intelligent jury; and with all these on his side, if he have not,
8. Good luck, it is odds but he miscarries in his suit." O the glorious uncertainty of the law!
