◄ Proverbs 25:10 ►
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Good News Translation
Otherwise everyone will learn that you can't keep a secret, and you will never live down the shame.

New Revised Standard Version
or else someone who hears you will bring shame upon you, and your ill repute will have no end.

Contemporary English Version
Others will find out, and your reputation will then be ruined.

New American Bible
Lest, hearing it, they reproach you, and your ill repute never ceases.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Lest he insult over thee, when he hath heard it, and cease not to upbraid thee. Grace and friendship deliver a man: keep these for thyself, lest thou fall under reproach.

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Lest he insult over thee, when he hath heard it, and cease not to upbraid thee. Grace and friendship deliver a man: keep these for thyself, lest thou fall under reproach.

thine

Psalm 119:39 Turn away my reproach, which I have apprehended: for thy judgments are delightful.

Context
More Proverbs of Solomon
…9Treat thy cause with thy friend, and discover not the secret to a stranger: 10Lest he insult over thee, when he hath heard it, and cease not to upbraid thee. Grace and friendship deliver a man: keep these for thyself, lest thou fall under reproach.11To speak a word in due time, is like apples of gold on beds of silver.…
Cross References
Proverbs 25:9
Treat thy cause with thy friend, and discover not the secret to a stranger:

Proverbs 25:11
To speak a word in due time, is like apples of gold on beds of silver.

Proverbs 25:9
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