Proverbs 12:19
The lip of truth shall be steadfast for ever: but he that is a hasty witness, frameth a lying tongue.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Labium veritatis firmum erit in perpetuum ; qui autem testis est repentinus, concinnat linguam mendacii.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- χείλη ἀληθινὰ κατορθοῖ μαρτυρίαν, μάρτυς δὲ ταχὺς γλῶσσαν ἔχει ἄδικον.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- שְֽׂפַת אֱ֭מֶת תִּכּ֣וֹן לָעַ֑ד וְעַד אַ֝רְגִּ֗יעָה לְשׁ֣וֹן שָֽׁקֶר
Haydock's commentary
Frameth. He studies how to escape detection. Hebrew, "a lying tongue is but for a moment;" it is presently discovered.
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.