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Don’t boast about tomorrow; for you don’t know what a day may bring. See also: James 4:13-16Luke 12:19-202 Corinthians 6:2Let another man praise you, and not your own mouth; a stranger, and not your own lips. See also: 2 Corinthians 10:18Proverbs 25:272 Corinthians 10:12A stone is heavy, and sand is a burden; but a fool’s provocation is heavier than both. See also: Daniel 3:191 John 3:12Proverbs 17:12Wrath is cruel, and anger is overwhelming; but who is able to stand before jealousy? See also: Proverbs 6:34Proverbs 14:30James 3:14-16Better is open rebuke than hidden love. See also: Proverbs 28:231 Timothy 5:20Galatians 2:14The wounds of a friend are faithful, although the kisses of an enemy are profuse. See also: Psalms 141:5Revelation 3:19Job 5:17-18A full soul loathes a honeycomb; but to a hungry soul, every bitter thing is sweet. See also: Luke 15:16-17Numbers 21:5Numbers 11:18-20As a bird that wanders from her nest, so is a man who wanders from his home. See also: Proverbs 21:16Jonah 1:31 Corinthians 7:20Perfume and incense bring joy to the heart; so does earnest counsel from a man’s friend. See also: Proverbs 16:23-24Psalms 23:5Proverbs 16:21Don’t forsake your friend and your father’s friend. Don’t go to your brother’s house in the day of your disaster. A neighbor who is near is better than a distant brother. See also: Proverbs 18:24Proverbs 17:171 Kings 12:6-8Be wise, my son, and bring joy to my heart, then I can answer my tormentor. See also: Proverbs 10:1Psalms 119:42Proverbs 23:15-16A prudent man sees danger and takes refuge; but the simple pass on, and suffer for it. See also: Proverbs 22:3Proverbs 18:10Hebrews 11:7Take his garment when he puts up collateral for a stranger. Hold it for a wayward woman! See also: Proverbs 20:16Proverbs 6:1-4Proverbs 22:26-27He who blesses his neighbor with a loud voice early in the morning, it will be taken as a curse by him. See also: 2 Samuel 16:16-19Acts 12:22-23Jeremiah 28:2-4A continual dropping on a rainy day and a contentious wife are alike: See also: Proverbs 19:13Proverbs 21:9Proverbs 21:19restraining her is like restraining the wind, or like grasping oil in his right hand. See also: John 12:3Iron sharpens iron; so a man sharpens his friend’s countenance. See also: Hebrews 10:24Proverbs 27:9Job 4:3-4Whoever tends the fig tree shall eat its fruit. He who looks after his master shall be honored. See also: 1 Corinthians 9:72 Timothy 2:6Song of Songs 8:12Like water reflects a face, so a man’s heart reflects the man. See also: James 1:22-25Psalms 33:15Mark 7:21Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied; and a man’s eyes are never satisfied. See also: Ecclesiastes 1:81 John 2:16Proverbs 30:15-16The crucible is for silver, and the furnace for gold; but man is refined by his praise. See also: Proverbs 17:3Zechariah 13:9Psalms 66:10Though you grind a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with grain, yet his foolishness will not be removed from him. See also: Jeremiah 5:3Proverbs 23:35Isaiah 1:5Know well the state of your flocks, and pay attention to your herds, See also: 1 Peter 5:2John 21:15-17Genesis 33:13for riches are not forever, nor does the crown endure to all generations. See also: Proverbs 23:51 Timothy 6:17-18Zephaniah 1:18The hay is removed, and the new growth appears, the grasses of the hills are gathered in. See also: Proverbs 10:5Psalms 104:14The lambs are for your clothing, and the goats are the price of a field. See also: Job 31:20There will be plenty of goats’ milk for your food, for your family’s food, and for the nourishment of your servant girls. See also: Matthew 6:33Proverbs 30:8-9
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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)21 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 27:2
Ver. 2. Lips. All hate affectation and vanity. Jo. v. 51.
↑ 2Proverbs 27:3
Ver. 3. Both. He is insupportable to himself and to others. Eccli. xxii. 17.
↑ 3Proverbs 27:4
Ver. 4. And who. Sept. "but envy (zeal) beareth nothing." The more we yield to the envious, the more he is offended at our good behaviour.
↑ 4Proverbs 27:5
Ver. 5. Love. Which can be of no service to us, while reproof may cause us to amend.
↑ 5Proverbs 27:6
Ver. 6. Enemy. Joab slew Amasa, while he kissed him. 2 K. xx. 9. Matt. xxvi. 48.
True friendship is not attentive to outward appearances.
↑ 6Proverbs 27:8
Ver. 8. Place, or vocation, like the prodigal son, Lu. xv. The Israelites were much attached to their own country, where they might practise the true religion. C.
↑ 8Proverbs 27:9
Ver. 9. And. Sept. add, " wine and incense...but accidents tear the soul." H.
↑ 9Proverbs 27:10
Ver. 10. Affliction. He will be less compassionate than a tried friend. --- Better,
&c. This daily experience evinces. "Those who purchase land, should consider if there be plenty of water, and a neighbour." Pliny xviii. 5. --- The Persians honour most those who live nearest to them. Herod. i.
134.
↑ 10Proverbs 27:11
Ver. 11. Thou. Heb. Complut. and Sixtus V. "I may," &c. Sept. "and cast reproaches from thee."
↑ 11Proverbs 27:14
Ver. 14. In the night. Or "early in the morning," de nocte, as the Heb. implies. ---
Curseth. His importunity will be equally displeasing. H. --- Flattery is dangerous, (C.) and unworthy of a free man. Cic. de Amic.
↑ 14Proverbs 27:16
Ver. 16. Hand. As it will flow away, such as woman is commonly incorrigible. C.
↑ 16Proverbs 27:17
Ver. 17. Sharpeneth. Or instructeth. Fungar vice cotis. Hor. Art.
↑ 17Proverbs 27:18
Ver. 18. Glorified. He who serves his master well shall be promoted.
↑ 18Proverbs 27:19
Ver. 19. Are. Heb. "to men." Our hearts have all something similar. C. --- Sept.
"as faces are not like each other, so neither are the hearts of men." They have all come peculiarity. H. --- But this agrees not with the original.
↑ 19Proverbs 27:20
Ver. 20. Destruction. Heb. abaddo, or abadon. C. xv. 11. Apoc. ix. 11. People die, and are plunged in hell daily. --- Eyes. Avarice and ambition. Eccli. xiv. 9.
↑ 20Proverbs 27:21
Ver. 21. Praiseth. If he be not puffed up, or if all agree in his praises, we may conclude that they are well founded. --- The, &c. is not in Heb. Comp. S. Jer. or Chal. and destroys the connection.
↑ 21Proverbs 27:22
Ver. 22. Mortar. Such were used by those who could not afford handmills. C.
↑ 22Proverbs 27:23
Ver. 23. Flocks. Jo. x. 3. Eccli. vii. 24. This may be applied to pastors.
↑ 23Proverbs 27:24
Ver. 24. Generation. Thou wilt be cited as an example of prudence, if thou hast forseen the change of thy affairs, and provided for it. In the east it was not unusual to see a general of an army reduced to the meanest condition, and economy is necessary for all.
↑ 24Proverbs 27:26
Ver. 26. Field. If thou wishest to purchase, or to pay the workmen.
↑ 26Proverbs 27:27
Ver. 27. Milk. We cannot but admire such frugality. Sept. are rather different. C.
v. 25, "Be careful of the grass of thy field...that thou mayst have lambs for thy clothing. Honour the field, that there may be lambs for thee. 27 Son, thou hast from me solid instructions for thy life, and for that of thy servants." H.
↑ 27License: 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