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My son, if you have become collateral for your neighbor, if you have struck your hands in pledge for a stranger, See also: Proverbs 22:26Proverbs 17:18Proverbs 11:15you are trapped by the words of your mouth; you are ensnared with the words of your mouth. See also: Proverbs 18:7Proverbs 12:13Do this now, my son, and deliver yourself, since you have come into the hand of your neighbor. Go, humble yourself. Press your plea with your neighbor. See also: James 4:102 Samuel 24:14Psalms 31:8Give no sleep to your eyes, nor slumber to your eyelids. See also: Psalms 132:4Proverbs 6:10-11Mark 13:35-36Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the snare of the fowler. See also: Psalms 91:3Psalms 124:7Proverbs 1:17Go to the ant, you sluggard. Consider her ways, and be wise; See also: Proverbs 20:4Proverbs 18:9Proverbs 6:9which having no chief, overseer, or ruler, See also: Job 38:39Proverbs 30:27Job 41:4-34provides her bread in the summer, and gathers her food in the harvest. See also: Proverbs 10:51 Timothy 6:19Proverbs 30:25How long will you sleep, sluggard? When will you arise out of your sleep? See also: Proverbs 24:33-34Psalms 94:8Ephesians 5:14A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep— See also: Proverbs 24:33-34Proverbs 6:6Proverbs 23:33-34so your poverty will come as a robber, and your scarcity as an armed man. See also: Proverbs 13:4Proverbs 20:4Proverbs 10:4A worthless person, a man of iniquity, is he who walks with a perverse mouth, See also: Matthew 12:34Proverbs 4:241 Timothy 5:13who winks with his eyes, who signals with his feet, who motions with his fingers, See also: Psalms 35:19Proverbs 10:10Job 15:12in whose heart is perverseness, who devises evil continually, who always sows discord. See also: Romans 16:17Micah 2:1Proverbs 6:18-19Therefore his calamity will come suddenly. He will be broken suddenly, and that without remedy. See also: Jeremiah 19:112 Chronicles 36:161 Thessalonians 5:3There are six things which the LORD hates; yes, seven which are an abomination to him: See also: Psalms 11:5Proverbs 8:13Proverbs 11:20arrogant eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood, See also: Psalms 120:2-3Proverbs 12:22Psalms 101:5a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that are swift in running to mischief, See also: Genesis 6:5Proverbs 1:16Jeremiah 4:14a false witness who utters lies, and he who sows discord among brothers. See also: Proverbs 19:5Proverbs 6:14James 3:18My son, keep your father’s commandment, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching. See also: Ephesians 6:1Deuteronomy 27:16Proverbs 7:1-4Bind them continually on your heart. Tie them around your neck. See also: Proverbs 3:3Proverbs 7:3-42 Corinthians 3:3When you walk, it will lead you. When you sleep, it will watch over you. When you awake, it will talk with you. See also: Psalms 119:11Proverbs 3:23-24Psalms 119:24For the commandment is a lamp, and the law is light. Reproofs of instruction are the way of life, See also: Psalms 119:1052 Peter 1:19Psalms 19:8to keep you from the immoral woman, from the flattery of the wayward wife’s tongue. See also: Proverbs 2:16Proverbs 7:5Ecclesiastes 7:26Don’t lust after her beauty in your heart, neither let her captivate you with her eyelids. See also: James 1:14-15Matthew 5:282 Kings 9:30For a prostitute reduces you to a piece of bread. The adulteress hunts for your precious life. See also: Luke 15:30Proverbs 29:3Genesis 39:14Can a man scoop fire into his lap, and his clothes not be burned? See also: Job 31:9-12Hosea 7:4-7James 3:5Or can one walk on hot coals, and his feet not be scorched? So is he who goes in to his neighbor’s wife. Whoever touches her will not be unpunished. See also: 1 Corinthians 7:1Malachi 3:5Ezekiel 22:11Men don’t despise a thief if he steals to satisfy himself when he is hungry, but if he is found, he shall restore seven times. He shall give all the wealth of his house. See also: Luke 19:82 Samuel 12:6Exodus 22:1-4He who commits adultery with a woman is void of understanding. He who does it destroys his own soul. See also: Proverbs 7:7Proverbs 7:22-23Hebrews 13:4He will get wounds and dishonor. His reproach will not be wiped away. See also: Proverbs 5:9-11Psalms 51:8Genesis 49:4For jealousy arouses the fury of the husband. He won’t spare in the day of vengeance. See also: Numbers 5:14Song of Songs 8:6Proverbs 27:4He won’t regard any ransom, neither will he rest content, though you give many gifts. See also: Malachi 2:9Proverbs 8:25Proverbs 7:13
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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)16 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 6:1
Ver. 1. Hand. Agreements were made by shaking hands, Is. lxii. 8. Xen. Anab.
iii. --- Stranger.
Sept. "enemy." He will presently be such, or thy friend's creditor will soon lay hold on thee. By standing surety for another, we expose ourselves to be ruined by his negligence. C. --- The Persians had a horror chiefly of lying and debts.
Herod. i. 138. --- All sureties are not condemned, but only such as are inconsiderate. M. --- A diligent compliance with engagements is commended.
W.
↑ 1Proverbs 6:3
Ver. 3. Make. Heb. "humble thyself, and made sure thy friend," (Prot.) entreating (H.) and forcing him to pay his debts. The Fathers apply this to pastors, who have undertaken to direct others. Their soul is at stake. S. Greg.
C.
↑ 3Proverbs 6:8
Ver. 8. Harvest. The economy and diligence of this littel republic is admirable.
Pliny, xxx. 11.
--- Some copies of the Sept. add with S. Amb. (Hex. v. []1. &c. C.) "or go to the bee, and behold what a worker it is, and how beautiful is its work; whose labours kings and private people use for health. But it is desirable and glorious to all; and though it be weak in strength, by the love of wisdom it has got forward" (H.) in esteem. C. --- Nature has given the form of a monarchy in bees, and of a democracy in the regulations of the ant. Tournemine.
↑ 8Proverbs 6:11
Ver. 11. A traveller. Sept. add, "wicked," and Heb. gives the idea of a robber. M.
--- But, &c.
This is not in Heb. Complut. or S. Jerom. C.
↑ 11Proverbs 6:12
This 19th-century note uses polemical language; read it in the light of the note at the top of this panel.
Ver. 12. Apostate. Heb. "of Belial, without restraint of religion and law. C. ---
Deut. xiii. 13.
M. --- Every one who sins through malice and particularly heretics, employ all their members to pervert others. W. --- Mouth. No reliance can be had on his promises. C.
↑ 12Proverbs 6:13
Ver. 13. Finger. These signs imply haughtiness, &c. Ps. xxxiv. 19. Is. lviii. 9. The posture indicates the interior sentiments, (S. Amb. off. i. 18.) insomuch, that S.
Ambrose would not receive among the clergy one whose gestures were too light. The Persians still speak by signs.
C.
↑ 13Proverbs 6:16
Ver. 16. Detesteth. This expression does not always mean that the last is worse than the former.
M. --- All the six sins are damnable, but the seventh is here, most so, being against charity and unity, and the devil's sin. W. --- Lying seems to be reprobated by three different terms. C.
↑ 16Proverbs 6:23
Ver. 23. Instruction. Given for our improvement, (H.) with charity. See Deut. vi.
6. Ps. xviii. 9.
↑ 23Proverbs 6:24
Ver. 24. Stranger. This is often inculcated, because nothing is more dangerous in youth, nor more contrary to the study of wisdom.
↑ 24Proverbs 6:26
Ver. 26. Woman. Who is married, exposes her lover to the danger of death. She chooses the most accomplished men, while the harlot receives the first comer.
C.
↑ 26Proverbs 6:27
Ver. 27. Burn. No one can deal with an adulteress without guilt. M. --- All probable occasions of sin must be shunned. W.
↑ 27Proverbs 6:29
Ver. 29. Clean. Or be left unpunished. No crime disturbs the order of society so much, nor is pardoned with more difficulty.
↑ 29Proverbs 6:30
Ver. 30. The fault is not so great, &c. The sin of theft is not so great, as to be compared with adultery: especially when a person pressed with hunger (which is the case here spoken of) steals to satisfy nature. Moreover the damage done by theft may much more easily be repaired, then the wrong done by adultery.
But this does not hinder but that theft also is a mortal sin, forbidden by one of the ten commandments. Ch. --- Heb. "they will not despise a thief, when he hath stolen to fill his soul, when he is hunger." Mont. H. --- This was commonly supposed to be his motive, and he was only condemned to make restitution, without any further disgrace. C. xix. 24. Ex.
xxii. 1. But what necessity could the adulterer plead? Both he and the woman must suffer death.
Lev. xx. 10.
↑ 30Proverbs 6:31
Ver. 31. Seven-fold. Or as much as may be required. The law never subjected the thief to restore above five-fold. If he had not enough, his person might be sold. C.
↑ 31Proverbs 6:32
Ver. 32. Folly. Lit. "want," inopiam. Heb. "is faint-hearted, corrupting his own soul, he will do that." H.
↑ 32Proverbs 6:35
Ver. 35. Gifts. "A husband would rather hear that his wife had been slain, than that she had been defiled." S. Jer. in Amos vi.
↑ 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