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# Proverbs 25

Proverbs 25 is chapter 25 of 31 in the Book of Proverbs. Here are all 28 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

## Proverbs 25 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. These, too, are parables of Solomon, which the men of Hezekiah, king of Judah, transferred.
2. It is to the glory of God to conceal a word, and it is to the glory of kings to investigate speech.
3. Heaven above, and earth below, and the heart of kings are each unsearchable.
4. Take away the tarnish from silver, and a most pure vessel will go forth.
5. Take away impiety from the face of the king, and his throne shall be made firm by justice.
6. Do not appear glorious before the king, and do not stand in the place of the great.
7. For it is better that it should be said to you, “Ascend to here,” than that you should be humbled before the prince.
8. The things that your eyes have seen, do not offer hastily in a quarrel, lest afterward you may not be able to make amends, when you have dishonored your friend.
9. Argue your case with your friend, and do not reveal the secret to an outsider,
10. lest perhaps he may insult you, when he has heard it, and he might not cease to reproach you. Grace and friendship free a man; preserve these for yourself, lest you fall under reproach.
11. Whoever speaks a word at an opportune time is like apples of gold on beds of silver.
12. Whoever reproves the wise and obedient ear is like an earring of gold with a shining pearl.
13. Just like the cold of snow in a time of harvest, so also is a faithful messenger to him who sent him: he causes his soul to rest.
14. A man who boasts and does not fulfill his promises is like clouds and wind, when rain does not follow.
15. By patience, a leader shall be appeased, and a soft tongue shall break hardness.
16. You have discovered honey; eat what is sufficient for you, lest perhaps, being filled up, you may vomit it.
17. Withdraw your feet from the house of your neighbor, lest, when he has had his fill, he may hate you.
18. A man who speaks false testimony against his neighbor is like a dart and a sword and a sharp arrow.
19. Whoever sets his hopes on the unfaithful in a day of anguish is like a rotten tooth and weary foot,
20. and like one who loosens his garment in cold weather. Whoever sings verses to a wicked heart is like vinegar on baking soda. Just like a moth to a garment, and a worm to wood, so too does the sadness of a man do harm to the heart.
21. If your enemy is hungry, feed him. If he is thirsty, give him water to drink.
22. For you will gather hot coals upon his head, and the Lord will repay you.
23. The north wind brings forth the rain, and a sorrowful face brings forth a detracting tongue.
24. It is better to sit in a corner of the attic, than with an argumentative woman and in a shared house.
25. Like cold water to a thirsty soul, so too are good reports from a far away land.
26. The just falling down before the impious is like a fountain stirred up by feet and like a corrupted spring.
27. Just as whoever eats too much honey, it is not good for him, so also whoever is an investigator of what is majestic will be overwhelmed by glory.
28. Just like a city lying in the open and without surrounding walls, so also is a man who is unable to restrain his own spirit in speaking.

## Proverbs 25 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Hæ quoque parabolæ Salomonis, quas transtulerunt viri Ezechiæ regis Juda.
2. Gloria Dei est celare verbum, et gloria regum investigare sermonem.
3. Cælum sursum, et terra deorsum, et cor regum inscrutabile.
4. Aufer rubiginem de argento, et egredietur vas purissimum.
5. Aufer impietatem de vultu regis, et firmabitur justitia thronus ejus.
6. Ne gloriosus appareas coram rege, et in loco magnorum ne steteris.
7. Melius est enim ut dicatur tibi: Ascende huc, quam ut humilieris coram principe.
8. Quæ viderunt oculi tui ne proferas in jurgio cito, ne postea emendare non possis, cum dehonestaveris amicum tuum.
9. Causam tuam tracta cum amico tuo, et secretum extraneo ne reveles:
10. ne forte insultet tibi cum audierit, et exprobrare non cesset. Gratia et amicitia liberant: quas tibi serva, ne exprobrabilis fias.
11. Mala aurea in lectis argenteis, qui loquitur verbum in tempore suo.
12. Inauris aurea, et margaritum fulgens, qui arguit sapientem et aurem obedientem.
13. Sicut frigus nivis in die messis, ita legatus fidelis ei qui misit eum: animam ipsius requiescere facit.
14. Nubes, et ventus, et pluviæ non sequentes, vir gloriosus et promissa non complens.
15. Patientia lenietur princeps, et lingua mollis confringet duritiam.
16. Mel invenisti: comede quod sufficit tibi, ne forte satiatus evomas illud.
17. Subtrahe pedem tuum de domo proximi tui, nequando satiatus oderit te.
18. Jaculum, et gladius, et sagitta acuta, homo qui loquitur contra proximum suum falsum testimonium.
19. Dens putridus, et pes lassus, qui sperat super infideli in die angustiæ,
20. et amittit pallium in die frigoris. Acetum in nitro, qui cantat carmina cordi pessimo. Sicut tinea vestimento, et vermis ligno, ita tristitia viri nocet cordi.
21. Si esurierit inimicus tuus, ciba illum; si sitierit, da ei aquam bibere:
22. prunas enim congregabis super caput ejus, et Dominus reddet tibi.
23. Ventus aquilo dissipat pluvias, et facies tristis linguam detrahentem.
24. Melius est sedere in angulo domatis quam cum muliere litigiosa et in domo communi.
25. Aqua frigida animæ sitienti, et nuntius bonus de terra longinqua.
26. Fons turbatus pede et vena corrupta, justus cadens coram impio.
27. Sicut qui mel multum comedit non est ei bonum, sic qui scrutator est majestatis opprimetur a gloria.
28. Sicut urbs patens et absque murorum ambitu, ita vir qui non potest in loquendo cohibere spiritum suum.

## Catechism of the Catholic Church

Paragraph numbers and the Catechism's own section headings (never quoted); text at vatican.va.
- CCC ¶ 2489: Respect for the Truth ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))

## Bishop Challoner's notes

Bp. Richard Challoner, notes on the Douay-Rheims (1750); they comment on its older wording.
- Verse 27: Viz., of God. For to search into that incomprehensible Majesty, and to pretend to sound the depths of the wisdom of God, is exposing our weak understanding to be blinded with an excess of light and glory, which it cannot comprehend.

Source: Catholic Public Domain Version (Ronald L. Conte Jr., 2009), public domain; Latin: Clementine Vulgate (1592).