Read Proverbs 27:5 & 6

Read Proverbs 27:5 & 6  These verses tell us that our friends will be honest with us.  If we talk too much, we want our friends to tell us that we am talking too much, so that we can stop rattling on and on.  We may get mad at them for saying that we talk too much, but we will get over it.  We want the truth, not just what we want to hear from our friend.  The last of verse six says that the enemy is deceitful.  An enemy will say, "Oh no, you aren't talking too much.  I like to hear you talk.  Go ahead, talk some more!"  But then he will tell others how that we talk too much, and he will laugh at us behind our backs.  But a true friend will be honest and will tell us the truth.  That is what Solomon calls the wounds of a friend.  We need honest friends, not back-stabbing enemies.