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When you and someone else
can't get along,
    don't gossip about it.[a]
10 Others will find out,
and your reputation
    will then be ruined.

11 The right word
    at the right time
is like precious gold
    set in silver.

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Footnotes

  1. 25.9 When … it: Or “Settle a problem privately between you and your neighbor and don't involve others.”

If you take your neighbor to court,
    do not betray another’s confidence,
10 or the one who hears it may shame you
    and the charge against you will stand.

11 Like apples[a] of gold in settings of silver(A)
    is a ruling rightly given.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 25:11 Or possibly apricots