Proverbs 17:27
He that setteth bounds to his words, is knowing and wise: and the man of understanding is of a precious spirit.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Qui moderatur sermones suos doctus et prudens est, et pretiosi spiritus vir eruditus.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ὃς φείδεται ῥῆμα προελέσθαι σκληρὸν ἐπιγνώμων, μακρόθυμος δὲ ἀνὴρ φρόνιμος.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- חוֹשֵׂ֣ךְ אֲ֭מָרָיו יוֹדֵ֣עַ דָּ֑עַת וקר ר֝֗וּחַ אִ֣ישׁ תְּבוּנָֽה
Haydock's commentary
Precious and reserved spirit. This is a mark of wisdom. (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
St Hippolytus On Proverbs, Section I
He asks of wisdom, who seeks to know what is the will of God. And he will show himself prudent who is sparing of his words on that which he has come to learn. If one inquires about wisdom, desiring to learn something about wisdom, while another asks nothing of wisdom, as not only wishing to learn nothing about wisdom himself, but even keeping back his neighbours from so doing, the former certainly is deemed to be more prudent than the latter.