{"id":9290,"date":"2025-07-03T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T23:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=9290"},"modified":"2025-06-30T08:52:38","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T14:52:38","slug":"conceal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=9290","title":{"rendered":"Conceal?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;m seeing something repeated in Proverbs that challenges me to silence. Silence? See what you think:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>A talebearer reveals secrets, But he who is of a faithful spirit conceals a matter. (Proverbs 11.13, NKJV)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>He who covers a transgression seeks love, But he who repeats a matter separates friends. (Proverbs 17.9, NKJV)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>The discretion of a man makes him slow to anger, And his glory is to overlook a transgression. (Proverbs 19.11, NKJV)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s a simple message. A friend of mine likes to say, <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><em>You don&#8217;t have to tell all you know!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This seems especially true when it involves someone else&#8217;s shortcomings. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m seeing something repeated in Proverbs that challenges me to silence. Silence? See what you think: A talebearer reveals secrets, But he who is of a faithful spirit conceals a matter. (Proverbs 11.13, NKJV) He who covers a transgression seeks love, But he who repeats a matter separates friends. (Proverbs 17.9, NKJV) The discretion of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=9290\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Conceal?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s8X9bo-conceal","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9290"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9291,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9290\/revisions\/9291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}