Proverbs 11:13
He that walketh deceitfully, revealeth secrets: but he that is faithful, concealeth the thing committed to him by his friend.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Qui ambulat fraudulenter, revelat arcana ; qui autem fidelis est animi, celat amici commissum.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἀνὴρ δίγλωσσος ἀποκαλύπτει βουλὰς ἐν συνεδρίῳ, πιστὸς δὲ πνοῇ κρύπτει πράγματα.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- הוֹלֵ֣ךְ רָ֭כִיל מְגַלֶּה סּ֑וֹד וְנֶאֱמַן ר֝֗וּחַ מְכַסֶּ֥ה דָבָֽר
Haydock's commentary
Walketh. Septuagint, "the double-tongued," dissembler, or great talker. (Calmet)
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.
The Fathers on this verse
Clement of Alexandria The Stromata, or Miscellanies, Chapter XIV. How a Thing May Be Involuntary
What is involuntary is not matter for judgment. But this is twofold, what is done in ignorance, and what is done through necessity. For how will you judge concerning those who are said to sin in involuntary modes? For either one knew not himself, as Cleomenes and Athamas, who were mad; or the thing which he does, as Æschylus, who divulged the mysteries on the stage, who, being tried in the Areopagus, was absolved on his showing that he had not been initiated. …