Verse 9
9. Seeketh love That is, in effect. Some say, seeks to exercise love to others.
Repeateth a matter Or, reporteth what he ought to have kept to himself. Compare Proverbs 16:28.
Separateth very friends The same word, אלו , ( alluph,) as is rendered “chief friends” in Proverbs 16:28. It is perhaps to be here regarded as a use of the abstract noun for the concrete noun. The exact force of the expression is about this causes a breach of friendship or intimacy. He causes persons to break off friendship with himself. On “covering transgression,” see on Proverbs 10:12. Some understand it thus: Frequently reiterating old complaints, or “repeating an offence,” (Miller,) separates friends; or, the noun being singular, a friend that is, from himself.
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