19 He 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.
Berean Standard Bible, Public Domain - Translation notes - Reference sources
Study Helps
References and Original Words
Verse 19
Cross-references
Original words
He who reveals גּֽוֹלֶה־ H1540 Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular secrets סּ֭וֹד H5475 Noun - masculine singular is a constant הוֹלֵ֣ךְ H1980 Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular gossip רָכִ֑יל H7400 Noun - masculine singular vvv לֹ֣א H3808 Adverb - Negative particle avoid תִתְעָרָֽב׃ H6148 Verb - Hitpael - Imperfect - second person masculine singular the one who babbles וּלְפֹתֶ֥ה H6601 Conjunctive waw, Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular with his lips שְׂ֝פָתָ֗יו H8193 Noun - feminine dual construct | third person masculine singular
BSB notes
- Or the one who is simple