Proverbs 13:5
The just shall hate a lying word: but the wicked confoundeth, and shall be confounded.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Verbum mendax justus detestabitur ; impius autem confundit, et confundetur.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- λόγον ἄδικον μισεῖ δίκαιος, ἀσεβὴς δὲ αἰσχύνεται καὶ οὐχ ἕξει παρρησίαν.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- דְּבַר שֶׁ֭קֶר יִשְׂנָ֣א צַדִּ֑יק וְ֝רָשָׁ֗ע יַבְאִ֥ישׁ וְיַחְפִּֽיר
Haydock's commentary
Confounded. The detractor is like swine, stirring up dirt. (St. Chrysostom, 32. ad Pop.)
The liar is not believed, even when he speaks the truth. (Aristotle)
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 Instructor, Chap. I. On Eating
From all slavish habits and excess we must abstain, and touch what is set before us in a decorous way; keeping the hand and couch and chin free of stains; preserving the grace of the countenance undisturbed, and committing no indecorum in the act of swallowing; but stretching out the hand at intervals in an orderly manner. We must guard against speaking anything while eating: for the voice becomes disagreeable and inarticulate when it is confined by full jaws; and the tongue, pressed by the food and impeded in its natural energy, gives forth a compressed utterance. Nor is it suitable to eat and to drink simultaneously. For it is the very extreme of intemperance to confound the times whose uses are discordant. …