Proverbs 17:7
Eloquent words do not become a fool, nor lying lips a prince.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Non decent stultum verba composita, nec principem labium mentiens.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- οὐχ ἁρμόσει ἄφρονι χείλη πιστά, οὐδὲ δικαίῳ χείλη ψευδῆ.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- לֹא נָאוָ֣ה לְנָבָ֣ל שְׂפַת יֶ֑תֶר אַ֝֗ף כִּֽי לְנָדִ֥יב שְׂפַת שָֽׁקֶר
Haydock's commentary
Eloquent. Septuagint, "faithful." They cannot be expected from them.
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.