Proverbs 25:8 (BSB)

do not bring hastily to court. Otherwise, what will you do in the end when your neighbor puts you to shame?

From Proverbs 25. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 25:8

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 25:8-10: I. Here is good counsel given about going to law: - 1. "Be not hasty in bringing an action, before thou hast thyself considered it, and consulted with thy friends about it: Go not forth hastily to strive; do not send for a writ in a passion, or upon the first appearance of right on thy side, but weigh the matter deliberately, because we are...
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 25:8: Go not forth hastily to strive,.... To go to law with a neighbour; think well of it beforehand; consider the nature of the cause, whether right or wrong; or whether it is a matter of such moment as to go to law about; whether it will not be deemed a frivolous and vexatious suit; whether able to bear the expenses of it, and what may...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 25:8: (Compare Pro 3:30). lest . . . shame--lest you do what you ought not, when shamed by defeat, or "lest thou art shut out from doing any thing."
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 25:8-10: Pro 25:8-10 8 Go not forth hastily to strife, That it may not be said, “What wilt thou do in the end thereof, When now thy neighbour bringeth disgrace upon thee?” 9 Art thou striving with thy neighbour? strive with him, But disclose not the secret of another; 10 That he who heareth it may not despise thee, And thine evil name depart no more.