Proverbs 19:22
A needy man is merciful: and better is the poor than the lying man.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Homo indigens misericors est, et melior est pauper quam vir mendax.
- Septuagint (Swete) shown from Proverbs 19:19
- καρπὸς ἀνδρὶ ἐλεημοσύνη, κρείσσων δὲ πτωχὸς δίκαιος ἢ πλούσιος ψευδής.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- תַּאֲוַ֣ת אָדָ֣ם חַסְדּ֑וֹ וְטֽוֹב רָ֝שׁ מֵאִ֥ישׁ כָּזָֽב
Haydock's commentary
Merciful. Hebrews ii. 17. Non ignara mali miseris succurrere disco. (Virgil, Æneid 4.)
Hebrew, "the desire of a man is his mercy," (Montanus; Haydock) or "shame," (R. Levi) as it leads to sin, Genesis vi. 5. All wish to be esteemed merciful.
Man of quality. Hebrew meish, "prœ viro." (Montanus)
"Rich man." (Septuagint) (Haydock)
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.