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Proverbs 21:14

A secret present quencheth anger: and a gift in the bosom the greatest wrath.

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The verse in its languages

Vulgate (Clementine)
Munus absconditum extinguit iras, et donum in sinu indignationem maximam.
Septuagint (Swete)
δόσις λάθριος ἀνατρέπει ὀργάς, δώρων δὲ ὁ φειδόμενος θυμὸν ἐγείρει ἰσχυρόν.
Hebrew (WLC)
מַתָּ֣ן בַּ֭סֵּתֶר יִכְפֶּה אָ֑ף וְשֹׁ֥חַד בַּ֝חֵ֗ק חֵמָ֥ה עַזָּֽה

Haydock's commentary

Bosom. In private. (Calmet)

They put all valuable things in the bosom. (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.