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The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father; but a foolish son brings grief to his mother. See also: Proverbs 1:1Proverbs 29:15Proverbs 17:25Treasures of wickedness profit nothing, but righteousness delivers from death. See also: Proverbs 11:4Proverbs 12:28Proverbs 21:6The LORD will not allow the soul of the righteous to go hungry, but he thrusts away the desire of the wicked. See also: Psalms 37:3Matthew 6:30-33Psalms 37:25He becomes poor who works with a lazy hand, but the hand of the diligent brings wealth. See also: Proverbs 19:15Proverbs 20:4Proverbs 21:5He who gathers in summer is a wise son, but he who sleeps during the harvest is a son who causes shame. See also: Proverbs 6:8Proverbs 30:25Proverbs 17:2Blessings are on the head of the righteous, but violence covers the mouth of the wicked. See also: Deuteronomy 28:2Proverbs 28:20Job 29:13The memory of the righteous is blessed, but the name of the wicked will rot. See also: Psalms 112:6Luke 1:48Mark 14:9The wise in heart accept commandments, but a chattering fool will fall. See also: Matthew 7:24-25James 3:13Proverbs 12:1He who walks blamelessly walks surely, but he who perverts his ways will be found out. See also: Proverbs 28:18Matthew 10:26Psalms 26:11-12One who winks with the eye causes sorrow, but a chattering fool will fall. See also: Psalms 35:19Proverbs 6:133 John 1:10The mouth of the righteous is a spring of life, but violence covers the mouth of the wicked. See also: Proverbs 13:14Ephesians 4:29Proverbs 18:4Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all wrongs. See also: 1 Peter 4:81 Corinthians 13:4-7Proverbs 17:9Wisdom is found on the lips of him who has discernment, but a rod is for the back of him who is void of understanding. See also: Proverbs 26:3Proverbs 6:32Isaiah 50:4Wise men lay up knowledge, but the mouth of the foolish is near ruin. See also: Proverbs 10:8Proverbs 18:7Proverbs 13:3The rich man’s wealth is his strong city. The destruction of the poor is their poverty. See also: Proverbs 18:11Proverbs 19:7Proverbs 14:20The labor of the righteous leads to life. The increase of the wicked leads to sin. See also: Isaiah 3:10-11Romans 6:23John 6:27He is in the way of life who heeds correction, but he who forsakes reproof leads others astray. See also: Proverbs 15:10Luke 11:28Proverbs 5:12He who hides hatred has lying lips. He who utters a slander is a fool. See also: Proverbs 26:24-26Psalms 55:21Psalms 15:3In the multitude of words there is no lack of disobedience, but he who restrains his lips does wisely. See also: James 1:19Proverbs 17:27-28James 3:2The tongue of the righteous is like choice silver. The heart of the wicked is of little worth. See also: Jeremiah 17:9Genesis 6:5Proverbs 12:18The lips of the righteous feed many, but the foolish die for lack of understanding. See also: Hosea 4:6Proverbs 17:16Matthew 13:19The LORD’s blessing brings wealth, and he adds no trouble to it. See also: Psalms 107:38Genesis 26:121 Samuel 2:7-8It is a fool’s pleasure to do wickedness, but wisdom is a man of understanding’s pleasure. See also: Proverbs 15:21Proverbs 14:9Proverbs 2:14What the wicked fear will overtake them, but the desire of the righteous will be granted. See also: Psalms 145:19Isaiah 66:4Matthew 5:6When the whirlwind passes, the wicked is no more; but the righteous stand firm forever. See also: Psalms 15:5Matthew 7:24-27Proverbs 12:3As vinegar to the teeth, and as smoke to the eyes, so is the sluggard to those who send him. See also: Proverbs 25:13Proverbs 26:6Matthew 25:26The fear of the LORD prolongs days, but the years of the wicked shall be shortened. See also: Proverbs 9:11Proverbs 3:2Psalms 91:16The prospect of the righteous is joy, but the hope of the wicked will perish. See also: Job 8:13Romans 15:13Psalms 73:24-26The way of the LORD is a stronghold to the upright, but it is a destruction to the workers of iniquity. See also: Proverbs 21:15Romans 2:8-9Philippians 4:13The righteous will never be removed, but the wicked will not dwell in the land. See also: Psalms 37:22Psalms 125:1Psalms 37:9-10The mouth of the righteous produces wisdom, but the perverse tongue will be cut off. See also: Psalms 37:30Proverbs 10:13Proverbs 10:20-21The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable, but the mouth of the wicked is perverse. See also: Proverbs 11:11Proverbs 12:6Proverbs 12:18
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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)23 notes
Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.
These notes keep the polemics of their time: some speak harshly of the Jewish people or of other Christians. The Church teaches otherwise today. The Jewish people may not be blamed for the death of Christ (Nostra Aetate 4; Catechism 597–598), and Christians of other communities are our brothers and sisters in the Lord (Unitatis Redintegratio 3). Christian unity
Introduction to the chapter
Solomon. This title is not found in Sixtus V. or Sept. Hitherto the preface extends, shewing the advantages of wisdom. C. --- The subsequent chapters more properly contain the parables, and are written with great elegance, so as to oppose vice to virtue. See Bain. S. Jer. &c. W.
Proverbs 10:1
Ver. 1. Mother. A virtuous child cannot be indifferent to the joy of his parents.
↑ 1Proverbs 10:2
Ver. 2. Wickedness. Riches ill acquired, or tending to corrupt the heart. Lu. xvi.
9.
↑ 2Proverbs 10:3
Ver. 3. Famine. Ps. xxxvi. 25. The prophets and Lazarus rejoice in suffering.
↑ 3Proverbs 10:4
Ver. 4. Poverty. Even of those who had plenty. This is true in a spiritual sense likewise. C. ---
The kingdom of heaven suffereth violence. H. --- Otiositas mater nugarum, noverca virtutum. S.
Bern. consid. ii. --- He, &c. This is not in Heb. Greek, S. Jer. or in several Latin copies. C. ---
We find it in the Sept. C. ix. 13. --- Away. He derives no benefits from lies. M.
↑ 4Proverbs 10:5
Ver. 5. He. Sept. "a son well educated shall be wise, and shall have the unwise for his servant.
An intelligent son has been saved from the heat. But the wicked son is destroyed by the wind in time of harvest." H. --- A good part of this is not in the original; yet it is received by the Greeks.
↑ 5Proverbs 10:6
Ver. 6. Wicked. Or, as the Heb. seems to indicate, "the wicked covereth iniquity, by an hypocritical exterior," (C.) or, "the injury" (Mont.) done to another, ( chamas. H.) "unseasonable, or infinite mourning," penthos aoron. Sept.
↑ 6Proverbs 10:7
Ver. 7. Rot. Heb. "stink." His reputation shall be lost. Gen. xxxiv. 20. C.
↑ 7Proverbs 10:8
Ver. 8. Lips. He will not bear correction. M. --- But suffers the punishment of his own unguarded speeches; or rather the man who hath foolish lips, shall be beaten, v. 13. C.
↑ 8Proverbs 10:9
Ver. 9. Sincerely. Or Simply, Heb. "in uprightness," (H.) or innocence. M. ---
Manifest. The hypocrite shall be at last detected.
↑ 9Proverbs 10:10
Ver. 10. Sorrow. Sept. add, "to men as well as to himself." C. --- "But he who chides boldly shall make peace," (H.) or "work safety," as the Syr. and Arab.
also read, instead of Heb. "a prating fool shall fall." "When a man connives at his friend's failings,...the offender is encouraged to sin on, and to heap up matter for very sorrowful reflections; but the man, who with an honest freedom, prudently reproves him, most effectually contrives his honour and safety."
The consequences of a virtuous and a vicious friendship, seem to be also expressed in the next verse. Thus the latter hemistic generally illustrates the first. But here, part of v. 8. may be improperly inserted. The two parts of the verses in Proverbs, &c. being arranged in distinct columns, has occasioned sometimes a part, and sometimes a whole verse, to be omitted, as the transcriber might mistake the line. Kennicott.
↑ 10Proverbs 10:11
Ver. 11. Life. Or a never-failing spring, fons perennis, as we should speak in Latin. C. xiii. 14.
Apoc. vii. 17.
↑ 11Proverbs 10:12
Ver. 12. Sins. Sept. "all who contend." Charity pardons all. 1 Pet. iv. 8.
↑ 12Proverbs 10:13
Ver. 13. Sense. Lit. "a heart." But the Hebrews use this expression in a different sense from what we do, and thus designate a fool. Ose. vii. 11.
↑ 13Proverbs 10:14
Ver. 14. Confusion. He speaks inconsiderately, and involves himself in continual dangers, while the wise are cautious in their speech.
↑ 14Proverbs 10:15
Ver. 15. Poverty. Diffidence hinders the advancement of the poor, as presumption is too common among the rich. A happy mediocrity is best. v. 16.
↑ 15Proverbs 10:16
Ver. 16. Life. In abundance he is not puffed up; but the wicked make use of their fruit or revenue to do evil. Their works are bad, unless they turn to God by at least an initial love of justice.
↑ 16Proverbs 10:18
Ver. 18. Foolish. We must neither dissemble our resentment, through hypocrisy, nor manifest it without reason. C.
↑ 18Proverbs 10:19
Ver. 19. Sin. A prolix discourse on subjects of importance is not reprehended.
S. Aug. Retrac. 1.
--- But it is very difficult to speak much, without going against some virtue. C.
↑ 19Proverbs 10:21
Ver. 21. Understanding. Lit. "hear." H. v. 13.
↑ 21Proverbs 10:23
Ver. 23. Man. He is enabled to see the evil of sin, and to avoid it. Job xv. 16.
↑ 23Proverbs 10:26
Ver. 26. Him. He spoils all their projects, (C.) and becomes a nuisance.
↑ 26Proverbs 10:29
Ver. 29. Evil. conscience upbraids them, and punishment is before their eyes.
H. Magna vis est conscientiæ. Cic. pro Mil.
↑ 29Proverbs 10:30
Ver. 30. Earth. This the Jews frequently experienced. The more enlightened understood, that such promises regarded also eternity. C.
↑ 30License: Notes by Fr. George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), from the Douay-Rheims Bible with Haydock's commentary (first ed. Thomas Haydock, Manchester/Dublin, 1811–1814; New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1859); New Testament notes compiled with Fr. Benedict Rayment. Public domain. Digital text: "The Haydock Bible", Internet Archive (archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible), uploaded 2011 under the Public Domain Mark. · Credits and licenses