1 Wine is a luxurious thing, and drunkenness riotous: whosoever is delighted therewith shell not be wise. 2 As the roaring of a lion, so also is the dread of a king: he that provoketh him, sinneth against his own soul. 3 It is an honour for a man to separate himself from quarrels: but all fools are meddling with reproaches. 4 Because of the cold the sluggard would not plough: he shall beg therefore in the summer, and it shall not be given him. 5 Counsel in the heart of a man is like deep water: but a wise man will draw it out. 6 Many men are called merciful: but who shall find a faithful man? 7 The just that walketh in his simplicity, shall leave behind him blessed children. 8 The king, that sitteth on the throne of judgment, scattereth away all evil with his look. 9 Who can say: My heart is clean, I am pure from sin? 10 Diverse weights and diverse measures, both are abominable before God. 11 By his inclinations a child is known, if his works be clean and right. 12 The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the Lord hath made them both. 13 Love not sleep, lest poverty oppress thee: open thy eyes, and be filled with bread. 14 It is nought, it is nought, saith every buyer: and when he is gone away, then he will boast. 15 There is gold, and a multitude of jewels: but the lips of knowledge are a precious vessel. 16 Take away the garment of him that is surety for a stranger, and take a pledge from him for strangers. 17 The bread of lying is sweet to a man: but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel. 18 Designs are strengthened by counsels: and wars are to be managed by governments. 19 Meddle not with him that revealeth secrets, and walketh deceitfully, and openeth wide his lips. 20 He that curseth his father, and mother, his lamp shall be put out in the midst of darkness. 21 The inheritance gotten hastily in the beginning, in the end shall be without a blessing. 22 Say not: I will return evil: wait for the Lord and he will deliver thee. 23 Diverse weights are an abomination before the Lord: a deceitful balance is not good. 24 The steps of man are guided by the Lord: but who is the man that can understand his own way? 25 It is ruin to a man to devour holy ones, and after vows to retract. 26 A wise king scattereth the wicked, and bringeth over them the wheel. 27 The spirit of a man is the lamp of the Lord, which searcheth all the hidden things of the bowels. 28 Mercy and truth preserve the king, and his throne is strengthened by clemency. 29 The joy of young men is their strength: and the dignity of old men, their grey hairs. 30 The blueness of a wound shall wipe away evils: and stripes in the more inward parts of the belly.
Proverbios · Douay-Rheims (revisión Challoner), edición estadounidense de 1899
Proverbios 20 Douay-Rheims (revisión Challoner), edición estadounidense de 1899
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- 1 Efesios 5:18; Oseas 4:11; Isaías 28:7; 1 Corintios 6:10; Proverbios 31:4
- 2 Proverbios 19:12; Eclesiastés 10:4; 1 Reyes 2:23; Proverbios 8:36; Oseas 11:10
- 3 Proverbios 16:32; Proverbios 17:14; Proverbios 19:11; Efesios 4:32–5:1; Proverbios 14:29
- 4 Proverbios 10:4; Proverbios 19:15; Proverbios 13:4; Mateo 25:24–28; Mateo 25:3–10
- 5 Proverbios 18:4; 1 Corintios 2:11; Salmo 64:6
- 6 Salmo 12:1; Mateo 6:2; Lucas 18:8; Lucas 22:33; Proverbios 27:2
- 7 Salmo 112:2; Salmo 37:26; Jeremías 32:39; 2 Corintios 1:12; Hechos 2:39
- 8 Proverbios 25:5; Proverbios 20:26; Proverbios 29:14; Salmo 99:4; Salmo 92:9
- 9 Eclesiastés 7:20; 1 Juan 1:8–10; 1 Reyes 8:46; Job 14:4; Job 15:14
- 10 Proverbios 20:23; Proverbios 11:1; Proverbios 16:11; Levítico 19:35; Deuteronomio 25:13–15
- 11 Mateo 7:16; Lucas 6:43–44; Proverbios 21:8; Lucas 2:46–47; Salmo 51:5
- 12 Mateo 13:13–16; Salmo 94:9; Salmo 119:18; Éxodo 4:11; Efesios 1:17–18
- 13 Romanos 12:11; Proverbios 19:15; Romanos 13:11; Proverbios 12:11; Proverbios 10:4
- 14 1 Tesalonicenses 4:6
- 15 Proverbios 8:11; Proverbios 25:12; Proverbios 16:24; Proverbios 16:16; Romanos 10:14–15
- 16 Proverbios 27:13; Éxodo 22:26–27; Proverbios 22:26–27; Proverbios 11:15; Proverbios 7:5
- 17 Eclesiastés 11:9; Proverbios 9:17–18; Job 20:12–20; Lamentaciones 3:15–16; Hebreos 11:25
- 18 Lucas 14:31; Proverbios 24:6; Proverbios 15:22; Jueces 1:1–2; Proverbios 11:14
- 19 Proverbios 11:13; Proverbios 13:3; Romanos 16:18; Proverbios 18:8; Levítico 19:16
- 20 Éxodo 21:17; Proverbios 30:11; Proverbios 30:17; Mateo 15:4; Judas 13
- 21 1 Timoteo 6:9; Proverbios 13:22; Proverbios 28:8; Proverbios 23:4; Proverbios 28:22
- 22 Romanos 12:17–19; 1 Tesalonicenses 5:15; Proverbios 24:29; Proverbios 17:13; 1 Pedro 3:9
- 23 Proverbios 20:10; Oseas 12:7; Ezequiel 45:10; Proverbios 11:1; Amós 8:5
- 24 Proverbios 16:9; Jeremías 10:23; Salmo 25:12; Salmo 37:23; Salmo 25:4
- 25 Eclesiastés 5:4–6; Mateo 5:33; Números 30:2–16; Levítico 27:9–10; Malaquías 3:8–10
- 26 Proverbios 20:8; 2 Samuel 12:31; Salmo 101:5–8; 2 Samuel 4:9–12; Isaías 28:27–28
- 27 1 Corintios 2:11; Hebreos 4:12–13; Job 32:8; 1 Juan 3:19–21; Génesis 2:7
- 28 Proverbios 16:12; Salmo 26:1; Proverbios 29:14; Salmo 101:1; Isaías 16:5
- 29 1 Juan 2:14; Proverbios 16:31; Levítico 19:32; Jeremías 9:23–24
- 30 Hebreos 12:10; Proverbios 22:15; Proverbios 19:25; Isaías 53:5; Isaías 27:9
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For [the Scripture] saith in a certain place, "The Spirit of the Lord is a candle searching the secret parts of the belly." Let us reflect how near He is, and that none of the thoughts or reasonings in which we engage are hid from Him.
Because, "When the righteous King sitteth on the throne, who will glory that his heart is pure?" It may be thou dost not discover anything in thine own conscience; but He who seeth better, whose Divine glance penetrateth into deeper things, discovereth it may be something, He seeth it may be something, He discovereth something.
Leer en contexto · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 6 (1888)
Here then it is further required, that each of you be found faithful in his conscience: for a faithful man it is hard to find: not that thou shouldest shew thy conscience to me, for thou art not to be judged of man's judgment; but that thou shew the sincerity of thy faith to God, who trieth the reins …
Leer en contexto · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)
So too it is said by Solomon, "For the wise king is the winnower of the ungodly, and he bringeth on them the wheel of the wicked.--After Thine height Thou hast multiplied the sons of men." For there is in temporal things too a multiplication, which turns away from the unity of God.
Leer en contexto · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)
For there be many that please themselves, and think themselves righteous; and there is another passage which goeth against them, which saith, "Who shall boast that he hath a clean heart, and that he is pure from sin?" There is then, so to speak, a limit to glorying in our conscience, namely, to know that thy faith is sincere, thy …
Leer en contexto · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)