1 [Qui diligit disciplinam diligit scientiam; qui autem odit increpationes insipiens est. 2 Qui bonus est hauriet gratiam a Domino; qui autem confidit in cogitationibus suis impie agit. 3 Non roborabitur homo ex impietate, et radix justorum non commovebitur. 4 Mulier diligens corona est viro suo; et putredo in ossibus ejus, quæ confusione res dignas gerit. 5 Cogitationes justorum judicia, et consilia impiorum fraudulenta. 6 Verba impiorum insidiantur sanguini; os justorum liberabit eos. 7 Verte impios, et non erunt; domus autem justorum permanebit. 8 Doctrina sua noscetur vir; qui autem vanus et excors est patebit contemptui. 9 Melior est pauper et sufficiens sibi quam gloriosus et indigens pane. 10 Novit justus jumentorum suorum animas; viscera autem impiorum crudelia. 11 Qui operatur terram suam satiabitur panibus; qui autem sectatur otium stultissimus est. Qui suavis est in vini demorationibus, in suis munitionibus relinquit contumeliam. 12 Desiderium impii munimentum est pessimorum; radix autem justorum proficiet.] 13 [Propter peccata labiorum ruina proximat malo; effugiet autem justus de angustia. 14 De fructu oris sui unusquisque replebitur bonis, et juxta opera manuum suarum retribuetur ei. 15 Via stulti recta in oculis ejus; qui autem sapiens est audit consilia. 16 Fatuus statim indicat iram suam; qui autem dissimulat injuriam callidus est. 17 Qui quod novit loquitur, index justitiæ est; qui autem mentitur, testis est fraudulentus. 18 Est qui promittit, et quasi gladio pungitur conscientiæ: lingua autem sapientium sanitas est. 19 Labium veritatis firmum erit in perpetuum; qui autem testis est repentinus, concinnat linguam mendacii. 20 Dolus in corde cogitantium mala; qui autem pacis ineunt consilia, sequitur eos gaudium. 21 Non contristabit justum quidquid ei acciderit: impii autem replebuntur malo. 22 Abominatio est Domino labia mendacia; qui autem fideliter agunt placent ei. 23 Homo versatus celat scientiam, et cor insipientium provocat stultitiam.] 24 [Manus fortium dominabitur; quæ autem remissa est, tributis serviet. 25 Mœror in corde viri humiliabit illum, et sermone bono lætificabitur. 26 Qui negligit damnum propter amicum, justus est; iter autem impiorum decipiet eos. 27 Non inveniet fraudulentus lucrum, et substantia hominis erit auri pretium. 28 In semita justitiæ vita; iter autem devium ducit ad mortem.]
Proverbs 12 Clementine Vulgate
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- 1 Proverbs 15:10; Proverbs 9:7–8; Psalm 119:97–100; Proverbs 5:12–13; Proverbs 18:1
- 2 Proverbs 8:35; Acts 11:24; Psalm 112:5; Romans 5:7; Isaiah 32:5–7
- 3 Proverbs 10:25; Ephesians 3:17; Colossians 2:7; Proverbs 12:12; Psalm 125:1–2
- 4 Proverbs 31:10–25; Proverbs 14:30; Proverbs 14:1; Proverbs 19:13–14; Proverbs 21:9
- 5 Psalm 139:23; Isaiah 55:7; Psalm 140:1–3; Psalm 41:6–7; Jeremiah 4:14
- 6 Proverbs 14:3; Jeremiah 5:26; Proverbs 1:11–19; Isaiah 59:7; 2 Samuel 17:1–4
- 7 Matthew 7:24–27; Proverbs 10:25; Proverbs 11:21; Job 27:18–23; 2 Samuel 7:26
- 8 2 Corinthians 10:18; Proverbs 3:35; 1 Corinthians 3:10–15; Matthew 27:4–5; 1 Corinthians 4:5
- 9 Luke 14:11; Proverbs 13:7
- 10 Deuteronomy 25:4; Genesis 33:13–14; Numbers 22:28–32; James 2:13–16; 1 John 3:17
- 11 Proverbs 28:19; Proverbs 14:23; 1 Thessalonians 4:11–12; Psalm 128:2; Ephesians 4:28
- 12 Jeremiah 17:7–8; Luke 8:13–15; Psalm 1:3; John 15:5; Proverbs 29:5–6
- 13 Proverbs 21:23; Proverbs 11:8; Psalm 64:8; Daniel 6:24; Proverbs 6:2
- 14 Proverbs 18:20–21; Isaiah 3:10–11; Proverbs 13:2; Psalm 63:5; Proverbs 15:23
- 15 Proverbs 3:7; Proverbs 19:20; Proverbs 14:16; Proverbs 26:12; Proverbs 16:2
- 16 Proverbs 29:11; James 1:19; Proverbs 10:12; Proverbs 17:9; Proverbs 25:28
- 17 Proverbs 14:25; Proverbs 14:5; Proverbs 24:28; Proverbs 6:19; Proverbs 19:5
- 18 Proverbs 16:24; Proverbs 15:4; Proverbs 10:20–21; Psalm 57:4; James 3:6–8
- 19 Proverbs 19:9; Psalm 52:4–5; Job 20:5; Zechariah 1:4–6; Acts 5:3–10
- 20 Matthew 5:9; 1 Peter 3:8–13; Mark 7:21–22; Jeremiah 17:16; Zechariah 6:13
- 21 1 Peter 3:13; Psalm 91:10; Romans 8:28; Revelation 18:6; Jeremiah 13:12–14
- 22 Psalm 5:6; Proverbs 11:20; Revelation 22:15; Proverbs 6:16–17; Jeremiah 9:24
- 23 Proverbs 13:16; Proverbs 11:13; Proverbs 10:19; Proverbs 10:14; Proverbs 15:2
- 24 Proverbs 12:27; Proverbs 10:4; Proverbs 21:25–26; Proverbs 13:4; Proverbs 19:15
- 25 Proverbs 16:24; Proverbs 15:13; Proverbs 17:22; Isaiah 50:4; Proverbs 15:23
- 26 1 John 2:26; James 1:13–14; Proverbs 17:27; Matthew 5:46–48; Psalm 18:12–13
- 27 Proverbs 13:4; Proverbs 26:15; Psalm 37:16
- 28 3 John 11; Romans 5:21; Ezekiel 18:20–24; Proverbs 11:19; Titus 2:11–12
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… God, knowing the denseness of the Israelites and their carnal love and propensity towards matter in everything, made this law: first, in order that the servant and the cattle should rest as it is written, for the righteous man regardeth the life of his beast: next, in order that when they take their ease from the distraction of material …
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