Douay Rheims Original ↷
Proverbs 18 📜 📕 ↷
Selfishness of the Unfriendly
1 He seeketh occasions that will depart from a friend: he shall ever be subject to reproach.📜💬📚
2 A fool receiveth not the words of prudence: unless thou say those things which are in his heart.📜💬📚
3 The impious when he shall come into the depth of sins, contemneth: but ignominy and reproach follow him.📜💬📚
4 Deep water, words from the mouth of a man: and a stream overflowing the fountain of wisdom.📜💬📚
5 To accept the person of the impious in judgment is not good, that thou decline from the truth of judgment.📜💬📚
6 The lips of a fool mingle him with strife: and his mouth provoketh brawls.📜💬📚
7 The mouth of a fool is his destruction: and his lips are the ruin of his soul.📜💬📚
8 The words of the double tongued, as it were simple: and the same come even to the inner part of the belly. Fear casteth down the slothful: and the souls of the effeminate shall be hungry.📜💬📚
9 He that is soft and dissolute in his work, is the brother of him that destroyeth his own works.📜💬📚
10 A most strong tower, the name of our Lord: the just runneth to it, and shall be exalted.📜💬📚
11 The substance of the rich man a city of his strength: and as a strong wall compassing him about.📜💬📚
12 Before he be broken, the heart of a man is exalted: and before he be glorified, it is humbled.📜💬📚
13 He that answereth before he hear, sheweth himself to be a fool, and worthy of confusion.📜💬📚
14 The spirit of a man upholdeth his imbecility: but a spirit that is easy to be angry who can sustain?📜💬📚
15 A wise heart shall possess knowledge: and the ear of the wise seeketh doctrine.📜💬📚
16 The gift of a man enlargeth his way, & maketh him room before Princes.📜💬📚
17 The just is first accuser of himself: his friend cometh, and shall search him.📜💬📚
18 Lot suppresseth contradictions, and between the mighty also it determineth.📜💬📚
19 Brother that is holpen of brother, is a strong city: and judgments are as the bars of cities.📜💬📚
20 Of the fruit of man's mouth his belly shall be filled: and the offsprings of his lips shall fill him.📜💬📚
21 Death and life in the hand of the tongue: they that love it, shall eat the fruits thereof.📜💬📚
22 He that hath found a good wife, hath found a good thing, and hath received a pleasure of our Lord.📜💬📚
23 The poor speaketh with supplications, and the rich will speak roughly.📜💬📚
24 A man amiable to society, shall be more friendly than a brother.📜💬📚
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