Debate thy cause with thy neighbour [himself]; and discover not a secret to another:
Ver. 9. Debate thy cause with thy neighbour, &c.] What shall I do then, may some say, if I may not right myself by law? You may, saith he, so you do it deliberately, and have first privately debated the cause out of desire of agreement, and moved for a compromise. See Matthew 18:15 .
And discover not the secret of another.] Merely to be revenged on him for some supposed injury. There are those who in their rage care not what they disclose to the prejudice of another. Charity chargeth the contrary. 1Co 13:1-13 It claps a plaster on the sore, and then covers it with her hand, as surgeons use to do, that the world may be never the wiser.