Proverbs 16:21
The wise in heart shall be called prudent: and he that is sweet in words shall attain to greater things.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Qui sapiens est corde appellabitur prudens, et qui dulcis eloquio majora percipiet.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- τοὺς σοφοὺς καὶ συνετοὺς φαύλους καλοῦσιν, οἱ δὲ γλυκεῖς ἐν λόγῳ πλείονα ἀκούσονται.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- לַחֲכַם לֵ֭ב יִקָּרֵ֣א נָב֑וֹן וּמֶ֥תֶק שְׂ֝פָתַ֗יִם יֹסִ֥יף לֶֽקַח
Haydock's commentary
Shall. Hebrew, "adds learning," both to himself and to others. Those who are wise and eloquent, must be preferred before those who have only the former qualification. (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.