9Debate your case with your neighbor, and don't betray the confidence of another;


In Context

6 Don't exalt yourself in the presence of the king, or claim a place among great men;

7 for it is better that it be said to you, |Come up here,| than that you should be put lower in the presence of the prince, whom your eyes have seen.

8 Don't be hasty in bringing charges to court. What will you do in the end when your neighbor shames you?

9 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.

11 A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in settings of silver.

Proverbs 25:9 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

25:9Debate thy cause with thy neighbour [himself;] and discover not a secret to another:

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

25:9If you argue your case with a neighbor, do not betray another man's confidence,

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

25:9Treat thy cause with thy friend, and discover not the secret to a stranger:

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

25:9Debate thy cause with thy neighbor himself , And disclose not the secret of another;

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

25:9Debate thy cause with thy neighbour, but reveal not the secret of another;

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

25:9Debate thy cause with thy neighbour himself, and disclose not the secret of another:

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

25:9Debate thy cause with thy neighbor himself; and reveal not a secret to another:

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

25:9Thy cause plead with thy neighbour, And the secret counsel of another reveal not,

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

25:9Debate your cause with your neighbor himself; and discover not a secret to another: