19He who reveals secrets is a constant gossip; avoid the one who babbles with his lips.
Focused Passage
Proverbs 20:19
The LORD Searches the Heart: Sobriety, Justice, Counsel, Speech, and Honest Measures
The chapter moves from appetite and conflict, to hidden purposes and integrity, to royal justice and human impurity, to work and speech, to surety, fraud, counsel, and gossip, to family honor, inheritance, vengeance, and dishonest scales, and finally to providence, vows, royal judgment, the LORD's searching lamp, and painful correction.
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Verse 19
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Original words
He who revealsגּֽוֹלֶה־H1540Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singularsecretsסּ֭וֹדH5475Noun - masculine singularis a constantהוֹלֵ֣ךְH1980Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singulargossipרָכִ֑ילH7400Noun - masculine singularvvvלֹ֣אH3808Adverb - Negative particleavoidתִתְעָרָֽב׃H6148Verb - Hitpael - Imperfect - second person masculine singularthe one who babblesוּלְפֹתֶ֥הH6601Conjunctive waw, Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singularwith his lipsשְׂ֝פָתָ֗יוH8193Noun - feminine dual construct | third person masculine singular
BSB notes
- Or the one who is simple