9Whoever conceals an offense promotes love, but he who brings it up separates friends.
Focused Passage
Proverbs 17:9
Wisdom in Household Peace, Tested Hearts, Just Speech, and Relational Restraint
The chapter moves through household peace, divine heart-testing, speech and poverty, family honor, bribery and love, rebuke and folly, quarrels and justice, friendship and surety, conflict and grief, crooked justice, wandering folly, and restrained speech.
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Verse 9
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Whoever concealsמְֽכַסֶּה־H3680Verb - Piel - Participle - masculine singularan offenseפֶּ֭שַׁעH6588Noun - masculine singularpromotesמְבַקֵּ֣שׁH1245Verb - Piel - Participle - masculine singularloveאַהֲבָ֑הH160Noun - feminine singularbut he who brings it upוְשֹׁנֶ֥הH8138Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular. . .בְ֝דָבָ֗רH1697Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singularseparatesמַפְרִ֥ידH6504Verb - Hifil - Participle - masculine singularfriendsאַלּֽוּף׃H441Noun - masculine singular