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If you have an argument with your neighbor,
    don’t tell other people what was said.
10 Whoever hears it might say bad things about you.
    And you might not ever be respected again.

11 The right word spoken at the right time
    is as beautiful as gold apples in a silver bowl.

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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