Proverbs 20:19

“Those who love to tell news will hardly keep secrets. flattereth . . . lips--(compare Margin; Pro 1:10). meddle . . . him--literally, "join," or "associate with."”

“Flattereth - literally, “The man who opens his lips,” who has no reticence; such a man, with or without intending it, does the work of a talebearer. return to 'Top of Page'”

“20:19 This perspective on the gossip is repeated in 11:13.”

“that goeth: Pro 11:13, Pro 18:8, Pro 26:20-22; Lev 19:16 meddle: Pro 24:21 flattereth: or, enticeth, Pro 16:29; Rom 16:18 Proverbs 20:20”

“19 He that goeth out gossiping revealeth a secret; And the babbler have nothing to do. Luther otherwise (like Hitzig) - Be not complicated with him who revealeth a secret, And with the slanderer, and with the false (better: loquacious) mouth, so that ל and the warning apply to the threefold description, a rendering which Kimchi also, and Immanuel, and others at least suggest. But in connection with Pro 11:13, the first line has the force of a judicium, which includes the warning to entrust nothing to a babbler which ought to be kept silent. Write גּולה סּוד, as found in Codd. and old Edd., with Munach on the penultima, on which the tone is thrown back, and Dagesh to ס, after the rule of the…”