Proverbs 16:13
Just lips are the delight of kings: he that speaketh right things shall be loved.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Voluntas regum labia justa ; qui recta loquitur diligetur.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- δεκτὰ βασιλεῖ χείλη δίκαια, λόγους δὲ ὀρθοὺς ἀγαπᾷ.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- רְצ֣וֹן מְ֭לָכִים שִׂפְתֵי צֶ֑דֶק וְדֹבֵ֖ר יְשָׁרִ֣ים יֶאֱהָֽב
Haydock's commentary
Loved. Yet none are more exposed to flattery and deceit than kings. (Seneca, ep. xxi.)
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.