Douay Rheims Original ↷
Proverbs 15 📜 📕 ↷
A Gentle Answer Turns Away Wrath
1 A soft answer breaketh anger: and a hard word raiseth up fury.📜💬📚
2 The tongue of the wise adorneth knowledge: the mouth of fools boileth forth folly.📜💬📚
3 In every place the eyes of our Lord behold the good and the evil.📜💬📚
4 A peaceable tongue is a tree of life: but that which is immoderate, shall break the spirit.📜💬📚
5 A fool scorneth the discipline of his father: but he that regardeth reprehensions, shall become more prudent. In abundant justice there is greater force: but the cogitations of the impious shall be rooted out.📜💬📚
6 The house of the just is very much strength: and in the fruits of the impious is perturbation.📜💬📚
7 The lips of the wise shall sow knowledge: the heart of fools shall be unlike.📜💬📚
8 The victims of the impious are abominable to our Lord: the vows of the just are acceptable.📜💬📚
9 The way of the impious is abomination to our Lord: he that followeth justice is beloved of him.📜💬📚
10 The doctrine is evil of them that forsake the way of life: he that hateth reprehensions shall die.📜💬📚
11 Hell and perdition are before our Lord: how much more the hearts of the children of men?📜💬📚
12 The pestilent man loveth not him that rebuketh him: nor goeth to the wise.📜💬📚
13 A glad heart cheereth the face: in pensiveness of mind the spirit is cast down.📜💬📚
14 The heart of the wise seeketh doctrine: and the mouth of fools is fed with unskillfulness.📜💬📚
15 All the days of the poor are evil: a secure mind is as it were a continual feast.📜💬📚
16 Better is a little with the fear of our Lord, than great treasures and unsatiable.📜💬📚
17 It is better to be called to herbs with charity: than to a fatted calf with hatred.📜💬📚
18 An angry man stirreth brawls: he that is patient appeaseth those that are raised.📜💬📚
19 The way of the slothful is as an hedge of thorns: the way of the just is without offence.📜💬📚
20 A wise son maketh the father joyful: and the foolish man despiseth his mother.📜💬📚
21 Folly is joy to a fool: and the wise man directeth his steps.📜💬📚
22 Cogitations are dissipated where there is no counsel: but where many counsellers are, they are confirmed.📜💬📚
23 A man rejoiceth in the sentence of his mouth: and a word in due time is best.📜💬📚
24 The path of life above the learned, that he may decline from the lowest hell.📜💬📚
25 Our Lord will destroy the house of the proud: and will make sure the borders of the widow.📜💬📚
26 Evil cogitations are an abomination to our Lord: and pure speech most beautiful shall be confirmed of him.📜💬📚
27 He that pursueth avarice disturbeth his house: but he that hateth gifts shall live. By mercy and faith sins are purged: and by the fear of our Lord every one declineth from evil.📜💬📚
28 The mind of the just meditateth obedience: the mouth of the impious redoundeth with evils.📜💬📚
29 Our Lord is far from the impious: and he will hear the prayers of the just.📜💬📚
30 The light of the eyes rejoiceth the soul: a good name fatteth the bones.📜💬📚
31 The ear that heareth the reprehensions of life, shall abide in the midst of the wise.📜💬📚
32 He that rejecteth discipline, despiseth his soul: but he that yieldeth to reprehensions, is a possessor of the heart.📜💬📚
33 The fear of our Lord, the discipline of wisdom: and humility goeth before glory.📜💬📚
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