Proverbs 20:19
The busybody is a revealer of secret counsels, || And do not make yourself guarantor for a deceiver [with] his lips.
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In Context
18You establish purposes by counsel, || And with plans you make war.
20Whoever is vilifying his father and his mother, his lamp is extinguished in blackness of darkness.
Cross References
Psalms 101:5Whoever slanders his neighbor in secret, || Him I cut off, || The high of eyes and proud of heart, || Him I do not endure.
Proverbs 13:3Whoever is keeping his mouth, is keeping his soul, || Whoever is opening wide his lips—ruin to him!
Proverbs 18:8The words of a tale-bearer [are] as self-inflicted wounds, || And they have gone down [to] the inner parts of the heart.
Proverbs 26:20Fire is going out without wood, || And contention ceases without a tale-bearer,
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 20:19
18 Every purpose is established by counsel: and with good advice make war. Note, 1. It is good in every thing to act with deliberation, and to consult with ourselves at least, and, in matters of moment, with our friends, too, before we determine, but especially to ask counsel of God, and beg direction from him, and observe the guidance of this eye. This is the way to have both our minds and our purposes established, and to succeed well in our affairs; whereas what is done hastily and with precipitation is repented… Read the whole commentary →