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A man who isolates himself pursues selfishness, and defies all sound judgment. See also: Ephesians 5:15-17 Proverbs 2:1-6 Proverbs 20:3A fool has no delight in understanding, but only in revealing his own opinion. See also: Proverbs 1:7 Proverbs 12:23 Proverbs 17:16When wickedness comes, contempt also comes, and with shame comes disgrace. See also: Proverbs 22:10 1 Peter 4:14 1 Peter 4:4The words of a man’s mouth are like deep waters. The fountain of wisdom is like a flowing brook. See also: Proverbs 20:5 Proverbs 10:11 Colossians 4:6To be partial to the faces of the wicked is not good, nor to deprive the innocent of justice. See also: Leviticus 19:15 Deuteronomy 16:19 Proverbs 28:21A fool’s lips come into strife, and his mouth invites beatings. See also: Proverbs 27:3 Proverbs 22:24-25 Proverbs 16:27-28A fool’s mouth is his destruction, and his lips are a snare to his soul. See also: Proverbs 13:3 Proverbs 10:14 Proverbs 12:13The words of a gossip are like dainty morsels: they go down into a person’s innermost parts. See also: Leviticus 19:16 Proverbs 16:28 Proverbs 12:18One who is slack in his work is brother to him who is a master of destruction. See also: Proverbs 10:4 Hebrews 6:12 Proverbs 24:30-34The LORD’s name is a strong tower: the righteous run to him, and are safe. See also: 2 Samuel 22:3 Isaiah 26:4 Psalms 91:2The rich man’s wealth is his strong city, like an unscalable wall in his own imagination. See also: Proverbs 10:15 Ecclesiastes 7:12 Psalms 52:5-7Before destruction the heart of man is proud, but before honor is humility. See also: Proverbs 15:33 1 Peter 5:5 Proverbs 16:18He who answers before he hears, that is folly and shame to him. See also: John 7:51 Deuteronomy 13:14 Proverbs 20:25A man’s spirit will sustain him in sickness, but a crushed spirit, who can bear? See also: Proverbs 15:13 Proverbs 17:22 2 Corinthians 12:9-10The heart of the discerning gets knowledge. The ear of the wise seeks knowledge. See also: James 1:5 Proverbs 15:14 Proverbs 9:9A man’s gift makes room for him, and brings him before great men. See also: Proverbs 19:6 Genesis 43:11 Genesis 33:10He who pleads his cause first seems right— until another comes and questions him. See also: Proverbs 18:13The lot settles disputes, and keeps strong ones apart. See also: Proverbs 16:33 Nehemiah 11:1 1 Chronicles 6:63A brother offended is more difficult than a fortified city. Disputes are like the bars of a fortress. See also: Proverbs 16:32 Acts 15:39 Proverbs 6:19A man’s stomach is filled with the fruit of his mouth. With the harvest of his lips he is satisfied. See also: Proverbs 12:13-14 Proverbs 25:11-12 Proverbs 13:2Death and life are in the power of the tongue; those who love it will eat its fruit. See also: Ephesians 4:29 Matthew 12:35-37 Colossians 4:6Whoever finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor of the LORD. See also: Proverbs 19:14 Proverbs 31:10-31 Proverbs 12:4The poor plead for mercy, but the rich answer harshly. See also: James 2:3 James 2:6 Exodus 5:2A man of many companions may be ruined, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother. See also: Proverbs 17:17 John 15:13-15 Proverbs 27:9

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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)18 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

Proverbs 18:1

Ver. 1. Reproach. True friendship resembles charity, and bears all things. 1 Cor.

xiii. 4. Heb.

now reads Thave, "desire;" instead of Thuane, occasion, or "pretext," which must have been in the copies of the Sept. and Vulg. C. --- Prot. "through desire, a man having separated himself, seeketh and intermeddleth with all wisdom."

The solitary seeks heaven. H.

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Proverbs 18:2

Ver. 2. Heart. Conformable to his passions. C. --- Heb. "unless to lay open his heart." He wishes to appear wise, and to justify his wicked designs. H.

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Proverbs 18:3

Ver. 3. Contemneth both God and man. Lu. xviii. 4. Heb. "is contemned" in his turn. C. --- He is like a man abandoned by the physician. Op. Imp. in Matt. Hom.

40.

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Proverbs 18:4

Ver. 4. Man, who is just and wise. His advice deserves attention. C. xx. 5.

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Proverbs 18:6

Ver. 6. Quarrels. Heb. "blows." Sept. "death;" (v. 7.) which are the usual consequences of quarrels.

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Proverbs 18:8

Ver. 8. Tongued. Heb. "caluminator." He pretends to wish well to those of whom he speaks, or else to guard the company against deceit. C. --- "If the devil be upon the detractor's tongue, he is in the ears of those who pay attention to him." S. Fran. de Sales. --- Fear, &c. is in the Sept.

above. The Vulg. retains both this and the new version of S. Jerom.

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Proverbs 18:9

Ver. 9. Brother. Like him, as both end in poverty. C. x. 4. and xii. 11.

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Proverbs 18:10

Ver. 10. Name. Essence, or protection of God. The rich depends on his own wealth.

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Proverbs 18:13

Ver. 13. Heareth the end of the question. C. i. 5.

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Proverbs 18:14

Ver. 14. Infirmity of the flesh. Matt. xxvi. 41. --- That is. Theodot. "is wounded, who shall support?"

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Proverbs 18:16

Ver. 16. Princes. He easily finds access by showing submission. C.

Placatur donis Jupiter ipse suis. Ovid.

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Proverbs 18:17

Ver. 17. Him. To see that he act with sincerity.

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Proverbs 18:18

Ver. 18. Lot. C. xvi. 33. Sept. "silence." C. --- But Grabe substitutes "lot." H.

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Proverbs 18:19

Ver. 19. Judgments of many are more deserving of credit. Heb. "a brother offended, is like a strong place, and their quarrels," &c. The are not easily reconciled. Civil wars are most terrible.

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Proverbs 18:20

Ver. 20. Satisfied. Those who are guarded in their words get employment. H. C.

xii. 14.

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Proverbs 18:21

Ver. 21. Love it, and speak well or ill, shall receive accordingly. Matt. xii. 37.

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Proverbs 18:22

Ver. 22. Good wife. Good is not in Heb. but should be understood, as it is expressed in Sept. of Complut. (C.) and Alex. H. --- He that, &c. occurs not in Heb. Sixtus V. &c. But it is found in Sept. and Arabic. The Syriac omits the last sentence. --- Wicked. S. Aug. had frequently asserted that a divorce was only of counsel: but this he retracted, when he reflected on this text. Ret. i. 19.

--- The Hebrews, Athenians, and Romans, followed the same practice with adulteresses. Selden, Ux. iii. 16. Dem. in Neæram, &c. --- Hermas (past. i. 4.) prescribes that the penitent shall be received again, but not often. In cae of divorce, the fathers still permit not a second marriage, that the parties may be reconciled. They enjoin the husband to put away only such as are incorrigible.

S. Aug. Adul. ii. 3. C.

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Proverbs 18:24

Ver. 24. Brother. The ties of nature are not so strong as those of friendship. C.

--- Heb. "a man that hath friends must shew himself friendly; and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother." Prot. H. --- Ut ameris ama. Mart.

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License: 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

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