New Revised Standard Version
A gossip goes about telling secrets, but one who is trustworthy in spirit keeps a confidence.

Contemporary English Version
A gossip tells everything, but a true friend will keep a secret.

New American Bible
One who slanders reveals secrets, but a trustworthy person keeps a confidence.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Where there is no governor, the people shall fall: but there is safety where there is much counsel.

Where there is no governor, the people shall fall: but there is safety where there is much counsel.

a tale bearer.

Proverbs 20:19 Meddle not with him that revealeth secrets, and walketh deceitfully, and openeth wide his lips.

Leviticus 19:16 Thou shalt not be a detractor nor a whisperer among the people. Thou shalt not stand against the blood of thy neighbour. I am the Lord.

revealeth

Proverbs 25:9 Treat thy cause with thy friend, and discover not the secret to a stranger:

Proverbs 26:20-22 When the wood faileth, the fire shall go out: and when the talebearer is taken away, contentions shall cease. . . .

Nehemiah 6:17-19 Moreover in those days many letters were sent by the principal men of the Jews to Tobias, and from Tobias there came letters to them. . . .

he

Proverbs 14:5 A faithful witness will not lie: but a deceitful witness uttereth a lie.

Joshua 2:14,20 They answered her: Be our lives for you unto death, only if thou betray us not. And when the Lord shall have delivered us the land, we will shew thee mercy and truth. . . .

Jeremiah 38:27 So all the princes came to Jeremiah, and asked him: and he spoke to them according to all the words that the king had commanded him: and they left him: for nothing had been heard.