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Don’t be envious of evil men, neither desire to be with them; See also: Psalms 37:7 Proverbs 3:31 Proverbs 23:17for their hearts plot violence and their lips talk about mischief. See also: Psalms 7:14 Psalms 28:3 Psalms 10:7Through wisdom a house is built; by understanding it is established; See also: Proverbs 14:1 Proverbs 9:1 1 Corinthians 3:9by knowledge the rooms are filled with all rare and beautiful treasure. See also: Proverbs 15:6 Proverbs 21:20 Proverbs 20:15A wise man has great power. A knowledgeable man increases strength, See also: Ecclesiastes 7:19 Colossians 1:11 Isaiah 40:31for by wise guidance you wage your war, and victory is in many advisors. See also: Proverbs 11:14 Proverbs 20:18 Proverbs 15:22Wisdom is too high for a fool. He doesn’t open his mouth in the gate. See also: Proverbs 14:6 Psalms 10:5 1 Corinthians 2:14One who plots to do evil will be called a schemer. See also: Psalms 21:11 Ezekiel 38:10-11 Proverbs 6:14The schemes of folly are sin. The mocker is detested by men. See also: Matthew 15:19 Isaiah 55:7 2 Corinthians 10:5If you falter in the time of trouble, your strength is small. See also: Isaiah 40:28-31 Ephesians 3:13 Jeremiah 51:46Rescue those who are being led away to death! Indeed, hold back those who are staggering to the slaughter! See also: Psalms 82:4 Isaiah 58:6-7 1 John 3:16-17If you say, “Behold, we didn’t know this,” doesn’t he who weighs the hearts consider it? He who keeps your soul, doesn’t he know it? Shall he not give to every man according to his work? See also: Job 34:11 Revelation 2:23 Jeremiah 17:10My son, eat honey, for it is good, the droppings of the honeycomb, which are sweet to your taste; See also: Isaiah 7:15 Song of Songs 5:1 Proverbs 25:16so you shall know wisdom to be to your soul. If you have found it, then there will be a reward: Your hope will not be cut off. See also: Proverbs 2:10 James 1:25 Jeremiah 15:16Don’t lay in wait, wicked man, against the habitation of the righteous. Don’t destroy his resting place; See also: Acts 9:24 Jeremiah 11:19 1 Samuel 23:20-23for a righteous man falls seven times and rises up again, but the wicked are overthrown by calamity. See also: Psalms 37:24 Psalms 34:19 Micah 7:8-10Don’t rejoice when your enemy falls. Don’t let your heart be glad when he is overthrown, See also: Obadiah 1:12 Job 31:29 1 Corinthians 13:6-7lest the LORD see it, and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath from him. See also: Lamentations 4:21-22 Zechariah 1:15-16Don’t fret yourself because of evildoers, neither be envious of the wicked; See also: Proverbs 24:1 Psalms 119:115 Proverbs 13:20for there will be no reward to the evil man. The lamp of the wicked will be snuffed out. See also: Proverbs 13:9 Job 18:5-6 Job 21:17My son, fear the LORD and the king. Don’t join those who are rebellious, See also: Romans 13:1-7 1 Kings 12:16 Titus 3:1for their calamity will rise suddenly. Who knows what destruction may come from them both? See also: Numbers 16:31-35 2 Chronicles 13:16-17 2 Samuel 18:7-8These also are sayings of the wise: To show partiality in judgment is not good. See also: Proverbs 28:21 Proverbs 18:5 James 3:17He who says to the wicked, “You are righteous,” peoples will curse him, and nations will abhor him— See also: Proverbs 17:15 Isaiah 5:23 Proverbs 11:26but it will go well with those who convict the guilty, and a rich blessing will come on them. See also: 1 Timothy 5:20 Proverbs 28:23 1 Samuel 3:13An honest answer is like a kiss on the lips. See also: Proverbs 15:23 Genesis 41:38-57 Proverbs 25:11-12Prepare your work outside, and get your fields ready. Afterwards, build your house. See also: Luke 14:28-30 1 Kings 5:17-18 1 Kings 6:7Don’t be a witness against your neighbor without cause. Don’t deceive with your lips. See also: Ephesians 4:25 1 Kings 21:9-13 Matthew 26:59-60Don’t say, “I will do to him as he has done to me; I will repay the man according to his work.” See also: Proverbs 20:22 Romans 12:17-21 1 Thessalonians 5:15I went by the field of the sluggard, by the vineyard of the man void of understanding. See also: Proverbs 12:11 Proverbs 6:6-19 Job 4:8Behold, it was all grown over with thorns. Its surface was covered with nettles, and its stone wall was broken down. See also: Isaiah 5:5 Ecclesiastes 10:18 Matthew 13:22Then I saw, and considered well. I saw, and received instruction: See also: 1 Corinthians 10:11 Psalms 4:4 Luke 2:19a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep, See also: Proverbs 6:4-11 1 Thessalonians 5:6-8 Romans 13:11so your poverty will come as a robber and your want as an armed man. See also: Proverbs 10:4 Proverbs 13:4

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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)24 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 24:1

Ver. 1. Like. Be not allured by their prosperity to imitate them. Ps. xxxvi. 1.

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Proverbs 24:3

Ver. 3. Wisdom and virtue, and not by injustice can the house be established.

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Proverbs 24:5

Ver. 5. Valiant, as well as a good economist. v. 4. C.

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Proverbs 24:6

Ver. 6. Counsels. "Consult many what ought to be done, but only a few of the most faithful, or rather thyself alone, what thou art about to do." Veget. iii. 9.

and 27.

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Proverbs 24:7

Ver. 7. High. Thus the fool excuses himself. But wisdom condescends to our weakness, if we be truly in earnest. Deut. xxxii. 12. Mouth. To defend himself, or to give advice. C.

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Proverbs 24:9

Ver. 9. Of a fool. In as much as he is wicked. Though he may have some pious thoughts, he attends not to them. H. --- He thinks how he may commit evil, and renders himself hateful. C. ---

Heb. "a wicked thought is the sin of folly." Sept. "the fool dieth in sins." ---

Detractor. Heb.

"scoffer." H.

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Proverbs 24:10

Ver. 10. Diminished. This is the sad consequences of too much dejection. Eph.

iv. 19.

Despairing, they abandon themselves to impurities. H.

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Proverbs 24:11

Ver. 11. Deliver. The Jews often put people to death without any formal trial, pretending zeal, as they did S. Stephen, &c. Our Saviour rescued the adulteress from such a situation, as Daniel had done Susanna. Yet this text may regard poor debtors. Ps. lxxi. 4. C. --- Christian bishops used all their influence to preserve the lives of those who did not deserve death. S. Amb. in Ps. cxviii.

Ser. viii. Off. i. 36. and ep. xxv. and xxvi.

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Proverbs 24:12

Ver. 12. I have. Heb. "behold, we know not this man." Pagn. H. --- He is a stranger. But all mankind are brethren, and have a charge to assist one another, even though they be enemies.

Eccli. xvii. 12. Ex. xxiii. 4. C. --- Keeper. Heb. notser, "preserver." As thou hast received many good things from God, shew mercy to thy neighbour.

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Proverbs 24:13

Ver. 13. Honey. Of wisdom, which is most delicious. M.

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Proverbs 24:14

Ver. 14. Thou shalt. Heb. "yea, it is the last." Mont. --- "Then there shall be a reward." Prot. ---

Thou shalt enjoy old age, or have posterity. C.

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Proverbs 24:16

Ver. 16. Fall into smaller sins, (S. Greg. vi. in 2 Reg. xv. &c.) or into disgrace, as yippol (H.) rather intimates. Vat. S. Aug. de Civ. Dei. xi. 31. --- Both significations agree with the context.

See Job v. 27. Matt. xviii. 21. C. --- He who is not subject to mortal sin, may still be exposed to many failings, and venial sins, which do not deprive him of the title of just; whereas the wicked consents to mortal sin, from which he riseth not so easily. Hence the wise man admonishes us not to lie in wait, or calumniously seek impiety in the house or soul of the just. W.

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Proverbs 24:18

Ver. 18. From. To punish thee. C. --- Thus will thy thirst of vengeance be disappointed. H. ---

The Hebrews believed that there was no evil, which was not caused by sin; and this was true in some sense. But still God often afflicts his servants, (v.

16,) as the whole book of Job tends to prove. C.

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Proverbs 24:19

Ver. 19. Contend. Or Heb. "associate." --- Like. v. 1. Ps. xxxvi. 1.

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Proverbs 24:20

Ver. 20. Come. Prot. "no reward," (H.) prosperity, &c. as designated also by the lamp. v. 14. C.

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Proverbs 24:21

Ver. 21. Detractors. Or those who speak ill of God or the king. C. --- Prot. "that are given to change," (H.) and relapses.

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Proverbs 24:23

Ver. 23. These. Sept. have an addition, and then our C. xxx. to v. 15. after which follows the remainder of this chap. and then the ten first verses of the 31st. H.

--- Solomon here resumes the sententious style. C. xxii. 17. C.

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Proverbs 24:26

Ver. 26. Lips. And be deemed a friend. M.

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Proverbs 24:27

Ver. 27. House, and support thy family. Before building, great deliberation is requisite. Lu. xiv.

28. Those who attempt to instruct others, must first set good example.

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Proverbs 24:28

Ver. 28. Cause, and necessity. Sept. "be not a false witness against thy fellow-citizen."

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Proverbs 24:29

Ver. 29. Work. Revenge is often reprobated, though the law allowed of retaliation, which the more virtuous did not insist upon.

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Proverbs 24:30

Ver. 30. Man. Those who neglected their land were despised. C. --- The ancient Romans esteemed agriculture as a most laudible and profitable employment.

Cato. Rust. i. Cic. Off. i.

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Proverbs 24:32

Ver. 32. Which. Sept. "at last I repented: I looked forward to receive instruction."

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Proverbs 24:33

Ver. 33. Said I, is not in Heb. C. vi. 10. C. --- Sept. "I will slumber a while," to rest. Sept. "I will enfold my breast in my hands a little." H.

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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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