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Proverbs 10:21

The lips of the just teach many: but they that are ignorant, shall die in the want of understanding.

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The verse in its languages

Vulgate (Clementine)
Labia justi erudiunt plurimos ; qui autem indocti sunt in cordis egestate morientur.
Septuagint (Swete)
χείλη δικαίων ἐπίσταται ὑψηλά, οἱ δὲ ἄφρονες ἐν ἐνδείᾳ τελευτῶσιν.
Hebrew (WLC)
שִׂפְתֵ֣י צַ֭דִּיק יִרְע֣וּ רַבִּ֑ים וֶֽ֝אֱוִילִ֗ים בַּחֲסַר לֵ֥ב יָמֽוּתוּ

Haydock's commentary

Understanding. Literally, "hear." (Haydock) (Ver. 13.)

From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.