Proverbs 11:13
13 A gossip goes around telling secrets, but those who are trustworthy can keep a confidence.
This proverb is about two different people, those speaking spitefully of a person behind their back versus those who can be trusted to keep something confidential. The first are tale-bearers that carry all the stories they can pick up, true or false, from house to house, to make mischief and sow discord, reveal secrets which they have been entrusted with, and so breaks the moral laws, and forfeits all the privileges, of friendship and conversation. The second is a close, trusted and respected person with whom confidences can be placed and they are kept safe and secure. You are assured what you have said will be held in the highest confidence unless what is known needs to be revealed for a greater good.
Mildred Fister has a rule in her beauty parlor, “NO GOSSIP”. "Sometimes people don't have anybody to talk to," she said. "So they confide in me. They tell me things about themselves. They know I'll never repeat what they say." If you have to choose a friend do you want one you can trust or one that will reveal your most private details?
Proverbs 15:2 says: ‘The tongue of the wise commends knowledge, but the mouth of the fool gushes folly.’ Choose friends that know how to direct knowledge. They are safe people you can trust.
Keep away from those who gush out every detail about everything they know. They lack safety and can compromise details of your life.
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