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Wine is a mocker and beer is a brawler. Whoever is led astray by them is not wise. See also: Ephesians 5:18Hosea 4:11Isaiah 28:7The terror of a king is like the roaring of a lion. He who provokes him to anger forfeits his own life. See also: Proverbs 19:12Ecclesiastes 10:4Proverbs 8:36It is an honor for a man to keep aloof from strife, but every fool will be quarreling. See also: Proverbs 16:32Proverbs 17:14Proverbs 19:11The sluggard will not plow by reason of the winter; therefore he shall beg in harvest, and have nothing. See also: Proverbs 10:4Proverbs 19:15Proverbs 13:4Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water, but a man of understanding will draw it out. See also: Proverbs 18:41 Corinthians 2:11Psalms 64:6Many men claim to be men of unfailing love, but who can find a faithful man? See also: Psalms 12:1Matthew 6:2Luke 22:33A righteous man walks in integrity. Blessed are his children after him. See also: Psalms 112:2Psalms 37:26Jeremiah 32:39A king who sits on the throne of judgment scatters away all evil with his eyes. See also: Proverbs 25:5Proverbs 20:26Proverbs 29:14Who can say, “I have made my heart pure. I am clean and without sin”? See also: Ecclesiastes 7:201 John 1:8-10Job 14:4Differing weights and differing measures, both of them alike are an abomination to the LORD. See also: Proverbs 20:23Proverbs 11:1Micah 6:10-11Even a child makes himself known by his doings, whether his work is pure, and whether it is right. See also: Matthew 7:16Luke 6:43-44Proverbs 21:8The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the LORD has made even both of them. See also: Matthew 13:13-16Psalms 94:9Psalms 119:18Don’t love sleep, lest you come to poverty. Open your eyes, and you shall be satisfied with bread. See also: Proverbs 19:15Romans 12:11Proverbs 10:4“It’s no good, it’s no good,” says the buyer; but when he is gone his way, then he boasts. See also: 1 Thessalonians 4:6There is gold and abundance of rubies, but the lips of knowledge are a rare jewel. See also: Proverbs 8:11Proverbs 25:12Proverbs 16:24Take the garment of one who puts up collateral for a stranger; and hold him in pledge for a wayward woman. See also: Proverbs 27:13Exodus 22:26-27Proverbs 11:15Fraudulent food is sweet to a man, but afterwards his mouth is filled with gravel. See also: Ecclesiastes 11:9Proverbs 9:17-18Lamentations 3:15-16Plans are established by advice; by wise guidance you wage war! See also: Proverbs 15:22Proverbs 24:6Luke 14:31He who goes about as a tale-bearer reveals secrets; therefore don’t keep company with him who opens wide his lips. See also: Proverbs 11:13Romans 16:18Proverbs 13:3Whoever curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in blackness of darkness. See also: Exodus 21:17Proverbs 30:11Proverbs 30:17An inheritance quickly gained at the beginning won’t be blessed in the end. See also: 1 Timothy 6:9Proverbs 13:22Proverbs 28:8Don’t say, “I will pay back evil.” Wait for the LORD, and he will save you. See also: Romans 12:17-191 Thessalonians 5:15Proverbs 24:29The LORD detests differing weights, and dishonest scales are not pleasing. See also: Proverbs 20:10Hosea 12:7Proverbs 11:1A man’s steps are from the LORD; how then can man understand his way? See also: Proverbs 16:9Jeremiah 10:23Psalms 25:12It is a snare to a man to make a rash dedication, then later to consider his vows. See also: Ecclesiastes 5:4-6Matthew 5:33Numbers 30:2-16A wise king winnows out the wicked, and drives the threshing wheel over them. See also: Proverbs 20:82 Samuel 12:31Psalms 101:5-8The spirit of man is the LORD’s lamp, searching all his innermost parts. See also: 1 Corinthians 2:11Hebrews 4:12-13Job 32:8Love and faithfulness keep the king safe. His throne is sustained by love. See also: Proverbs 16:12Psalms 101:1Proverbs 29:14The glory of young men is their strength. The splendor of old men is their gray hair. See also: 1 John 2:14Proverbs 16:31Leviticus 19:32Wounding blows cleanse away evil, and beatings purge the innermost parts. See also: Hebrews 12:10Proverbs 22:15Proverbs 19:25
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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 20:1
Ver. 1. A luxurious thing. Heb. "a scoffer." Chal. "renders one a scoffer." ---
Drunkenness. Heb.
ssocor, any strong drink, particularly palm-wine. Intemperance places the strongest obstacles in the way of wisdom. It causes a person to mock at all sacred things, and to be quarrelsome. C.
xxiii. 29. Eph. v. 18.
↑ 1Proverbs 20:3
Ver. 3. Reproaches. It is better not to commence a lawsuit, even when we are in the right. C.
xvii. 11. C. --- Plena victoria est ad clamantem tacere. Val. Max.
↑ 3Proverbs 20:5
Ver. 5. Out. So David discovered the meaning of the Thecuite, 2 K. xiv. 18. A wise politician carefully examines everything in a foreign court.
↑ 5Proverbs 20:6
Ver. 6. Faithful. Few continue steady to their engagements or friends, whom they will assist to a certain point. In God these two virtues always go together.
Ps. lxxxiv. 11. But they are rarely found in men. C.
↑ 6Proverbs 20:8
Ver. 8. Look. It is the duty of kings to administer justice.
↑ 8Proverbs 20:9
Ver. 9. Sin. Prot. "my sin?" We know not when it is remitted. H. --- Without a special revelation, no one can be secure, 1 Jo. i. 8. Eccle. ix. 1. Bayn. S. Aug. in Ps. cxlix.
↑ 9Proverbs 20:10
Ver. 10. Measures. In commerce, (C.) as well as in judging. S. Greg. in Ezec. iv.
↑ 10Proverbs 20:11
Ver. 11. Right. We may form some judgment of his future conduct, from the inclinations which he manifests in his infancy.
Naturam expellas furca, tamen ipsa recurret,
Et mala perrumpet furtim fastidia victrix. Hor.
↑ 11Proverbs 20:12
Ver. 12. Both. Consequently he will know all our actions. Ps. xciii. 9. We must refer all to him, as he gives us the means of learning. C.
↑ 12Proverbs 20:13
Ver. 13. Sleep. Sept. "back-biting, that thou mayst not be taken off." H.
↑ 13Proverbs 20:14
Ver. 14. Buyer. This is the common practice; yet it is not without exceptions. S.
Aug. (Trin. xiii.
3.) observes, that the mountebank having promised to tell what every person had in his heart, many came to the theatre, when he told them that they all wished to by cheap, and to sell dear.
They all applauded the remark. C. --- Sept. is here defective. H.
↑ 14Proverbs 20:16
Ver. 16. Strangers. For whom he has bound himself foolishly. C. vi. 1. All who have the care of others, must answer for them. C.
↑ 16Proverbs 20:17
Ver. 17. Lying. Deceit, and unlawful pleasures. C. ix. 17. But God mingles disgust with them, and will punish the guilty, at least hereafter. Worldly enjoyments seem sweet, but they are full of gravel, and hurtful.
↑ 17Proverbs 20:18
Ver. 18. Governments. Or prudence, else the best designs may prove abortive.
↑ 18Proverbs 20:19
Ver. 19. Lips. And speaketh much. These people are unworthy of our friendship.
↑ 19Proverbs 20:20
Ver. 20. Lamp. Prosperity, or children.
↑ 20Proverbs 20:21
Ver. 21. Blessing. It is morally impossible that they should have been acquired justly. C. xiii.
11. and xxi. 5.
↑ 21Proverbs 20:22
Ver. 22. Evil. And revenge myself. This belongs to the Lord. Deut. xxxii. 35. Man would be too favourable to himself, and would also pronounce his own condemnation, as he is also a sinner.
↑ 22Proverbs 20:24
Ver. 24. Way? Jer. x. 23. Independently of God, who can do any good? C.
↑ 24Proverbs 20:25
Ver. 25. Ones. Heb. "the saint or holy thing." H. --- Chal. "to make a vow for the sanctuary, and afterwards repent;" having acted inconsiderately at first. To attack the persons or relics of the saints, or to plunder what is consecrated to pious uses, will bring on destruction; so also to make vows, and then seek to evade them, will not pass unpunished. C.
↑ 25Proverbs 20:26
Ver. 26. Wheel. Or triumphal arch, fornicem. Ven. Bede. Jans. --- He will make his enemies lie prostrate under his chariot-wheels, 2 K. xii. 31.
↑ 26Proverbs 20:27
Ver. 27. Lamp. The breath of life, (Gen. ii. 7.) and the light of man. 1 Cor. ii. 11.
↑ 27Proverbs 20:28
Ver. 28. Clemency. Such a king need not fear rebellion. C.
↑ 28Proverbs 20:29
Ver. 29. Hairs, and experience. They have a greater contempt of death and pleasures. S. Amb.
Hex. i. 8.
↑ 29Proverbs 20:30
Ver. 30. Evils. The wicked shall derive benefit from correction. --- Belly. They shall feel the remorse of conscience, as Chal. seems to indicate. C. --- A serious illness often causes people to repent. M.
↑ 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