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My son, don’t forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments, See also: John 14:21-24Proverbs 4:5Deuteronomy 6:6-9for they will add to you length of days, years of life, and peace. See also: Ephesians 6:1-3Proverbs 4:10Psalms 91:16Don’t let kindness and truth forsake you. Bind them around your neck. Write them on the tablet of your heart. See also: Proverbs 7:32 Corinthians 3:3Hebrews 10:16So you will find favor, and good understanding in the sight of God and man. See also: Luke 2:521 Samuel 2:26Romans 14:18Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding. See also: Psalms 37:5Jeremiah 17:7-8Proverbs 28:26In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight. See also: Proverbs 16:3Psalms 32:8Philippians 4:6Don’t be wise in your own eyes. Fear the LORD, and depart from evil. See also: Job 28:28Romans 12:16Proverbs 26:12It will be health to your body, and nourishment to your bones. See also: Proverbs 4:22Psalms 147:3Proverbs 16:24Honor the LORD with your substance, with the first fruits of all your increase; See also: Deuteronomy 26:2-151 Corinthians 16:2Exodus 23:19so your barns will be filled with plenty, and your vats will overflow with new wine. See also: Proverbs 19:17Deuteronomy 28:8Proverbs 11:24-25My son, don’t despise the LORD’s discipline, neither be weary of his correction; See also: Job 5:17Revelation 3:19Hebrews 12:5-12for whom the LORD loves, he corrects, even as a father reproves the son in whom he delights. See also: Deuteronomy 8:5Revelation 3:19Proverbs 29:17Happy is the man who finds wisdom, the man who gets understanding. See also: Proverbs 8:32-35Proverbs 4:5-9Ecclesiastes 9:15-18For her good profit is better than getting silver, and her return is better than fine gold. See also: Proverbs 8:10-11Proverbs 16:16Proverbs 8:19She is more precious than rubies. None of the things you can desire are to be compared to her. See also: Proverbs 8:11Psalms 73:25-26Proverbs 31:10Length of days is in her right hand. In her left hand are riches and honor. See also: Proverbs 3:22 Corinthians 6:10Proverbs 22:4Her ways are ways of pleasantness. All her paths are peace. See also: Luke 1:79Isaiah 26:3Philippians 4:8-9She is a tree of life to those who lay hold of her. Happy is everyone who retains her. See also: Proverbs 11:30Proverbs 15:4Revelation 2:7By wisdom the LORD founded the earth. By understanding, he established the heavens. See also: Psalms 104:24Jeremiah 10:12John 1:3By his knowledge, the depths were broken up, and the skies drop down the dew. See also: Genesis 7:11Psalms 65:9-12Job 36:27-28My son, let them not depart from your eyes. Keep sound wisdom and discretion, See also: Joshua 1:8Deuteronomy 6:6-9Deuteronomy 32:46-47so they will be life to your soul, and grace for your neck. See also: Proverbs 4:22Proverbs 1:9Isaiah 38:16Then you shall walk in your way securely. Your foot won’t stumble. See also: Proverbs 10:9Proverbs 4:12Psalms 91:11-12When you lie down, you will not be afraid. Yes, you will lie down, and your sleep will be sweet. See also: Psalms 4:8Psalms 3:5Proverbs 6:22Don’t be afraid of sudden fear, neither of the desolation of the wicked, when it comes; See also: Isaiah 41:10-14Psalms 112:71 Peter 3:14for the LORD will be your confidence, and will keep your foot from being taken. See also: Psalms 91:3Proverbs 14:261 Samuel 2:9Don’t withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do it. See also: Galatians 6:10James 2:15-16Romans 13:7Don’t say to your neighbor, “Go, and come again; tomorrow I will give it to you,” when you have it by you. See also: Leviticus 19:13Deuteronomy 24:12-152 Corinthians 8:11Don’t devise evil against your neighbor, since he dwells securely by you. See also: Proverbs 6:14Psalms 55:20Psalms 59:3Don’t strive with a man without cause, if he has done you no harm. See also: 2 Timothy 2:24Proverbs 29:22Romans 12:18-21Don’t envy the man of violence. Choose none of his ways. See also: Proverbs 24:1Psalms 37:1Galatians 5:21For the perverse is an abomination to the LORD, but his friendship is with the upright. See also: Psalms 25:14Proverbs 11:20Proverbs 17:15The LORD’s curse is in the house of the wicked, but he blesses the habitation of the righteous. See also: Psalms 37:22Leviticus 26:14-46Job 8:6-7Surely he mocks the mockers, but he gives grace to the humble. See also: James 4:61 Peter 5:5Psalms 138:6The wise will inherit glory, but shame will be the promotion of fools. See also: Psalms 132:18Isaiah 65:13-151 Samuel 2:30
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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)22 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 3:1
Ver. 1. My son. God speaks, or the master instructs his disciple. v. 21. C. --- We must remember and love instruction, and reduce it to practice. W.
↑ 1Proverbs 3:2
Ver. 2. Peace. These prefigured more substantial blessings. C.
↑ 2Proverbs 3:3
Ver. 3. Truth. Be kind and faithful to all. Gen. xxiv. 27. Ps. xxiv. 10.
↑ 3Proverbs 3:4
Ver. 4. Good. Sept. "forecast good before the Lord and men." S. Paul seems to allude to this version, Rom. xii. 17. and 2 Cor. viii. 22. H.
↑ 4Proverbs 3:5
Ver. 5. All. God will have nothing by halves. --- Lean not. By pride. 2 Cor. xii. 13.
All must be referred to God. C. --- In him we may safely trust. W.
↑ 5Proverbs 3:8
Ver. 8. Bones. Thou shalt enjoy perfect health.
↑ 8Proverbs 3:9
Ver. 9. Fruits. Sept. add, "of justice;" to intimate that no presents will be acceptable, which have been unjustly acquired.
↑ 9Proverbs 3:11
Ver. 11. Him. Correction is rather a proof of love than of anger. Ps. iii. 19. C. ---
God thus shews that he approves of his servants; and therefore his other promises, which seem of a temporal nature, must be understood with reference to the next life. W.
↑ 11Proverbs 3:12
Ver. 12. And as. Sept. "but he scourgeth every son whom he receiveth," as S.
Paul quotes this passage. Heb. xii. 6. The verb is now wanting in Heb. or ceab;
"as a father" may signify
" scourgeth, in piel, (M.) with i prefixed. C.
↑ 12Proverbs 3:15
Ver. 15. Riches. Heb. peninim, (H.) "pearls." Job xxviii. 18. C.
↑ 15Proverbs 3:16
Ver. 16. Glory. Her hands are full, and she grants favours with profusion, (H.) as with both hands, promising eternal life. W.
↑ 16Proverbs 3:18
Ver. 18. Life. Like that planted in paradise. Gen. ii. 9.
↑ 18Proverbs 3:19
Ver. 19. Wisdom. Hitherto he had spoken of that virtue. Now he treats of the uncreated wisdom, (C.) which is God the Son. M. Jans. S. Greg. Mor. xii. 4.
↑ 19Proverbs 3:20
Ver. 20. Out. The higher and lower waters being divided, (C.) or the channels formed to receive the waters. Piscat. --- It may also speak of the deluge. Ven.
Bede.--- With. Heb. "have distilled dew." This is so copious, as to resemble rain in Palestine. Judg. vi. 37. and 2 K. xvii. 12.
↑ 20Proverbs 3:22
Ver. 22. Mouth. There have been wise and virtuous men afflicted, v. 11. But they have borne all with patience, and have merited a more glorious reward than what this earth could afford. C.
↑ 22Proverbs 3:27
Ver. 27. Able. Prot. "withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thine hand to do it." Relieve the distressed. H. --- They have a title to that wealth, since those who possess it are bound to relieve the indigent. C. --- Sept. "refrain not from doing good," &c.
H.
↑ 27Proverbs 3:28
Ver. 28. Present. Alms in season are doubly valuable. W. --- Antigonus acquired the title of Doson, "about to give," as he never gave, (Plutarch) but only promised.
↑ 28Proverbs 3:30
Ver. 30. Cause. We may defend ourselves; but herein great discretion is necessary. C. --- Cum pari contendere anceps est: cum superiore furiosum; cum inferiore sordidum. Senec. Prov.
↑ 30Proverbs 3:31
Ver. 31. Ways. Of injustice. Seek not to attain his prosperity by the same means. C.
↑ 31Proverbs 3:33
Ver. 33. Want. Heb. "a curse." --- Shall be. Heb. "he blesseth." H.
↑ 33Proverbs 3:34
Ver. 34. Scorners. Lit. "he will delude the scorners." H. --- He will treat them as they would treat others. Ps. xvii. 27. C. --- Sept. "the Lord resisteth the proud,"
&c. So the apostles quote this passage. 1 Pet. v. 5. Jam. iv. 6. H.
↑ 34Proverbs 3:35
Ver. 35. Disgrace. They are seen by more, and their fall is more dangerous. C.
--- "A fool extols what is ignominious." Pagn. H.
↑ 35License: 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