Catholic Public Domain Version
"It shall be beautiful to you, if you preserve it in your inner self, and it shall overflow from your lips, "
— Proverbs 22:18, Catholic Public Domain Version
“For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee; they shall withal be fitted in thy lips.”
“For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee, If they be established together upon thy lips. ”
“For it is a pleasant thing if you keep them within you, if all of them are ready on your lips.”
“For it is pleasing if you keep these sayings within you, and they are ready on your lips.”
“Which shall be beautiful for thee, if thou keep it in thy bowels, and it shall flow in thy lips:”
“For it is a delight to keep them in your heart, to have them ready on your lips.”
“For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee; they shall withal be fitted in thy lips.”
Foolishness has been bound to the heart of a child, and a rod of discipline shall cause it to flee.
Whoever slanders the poor, so as to augment his own riches, will give it away to one who is richer, and will be in need.
Incline your ear, and listen to the words of the wise. Then apply your heart to my doctrine.
It shall be beautiful to you, if you preserve it in your inner self, and it shall overflow from your lips,
so that your confidence may be in the Lord. Therefore, I also have revealed it to you this day.
Behold, I have written it for you in three ways, and with meditations and knowledge,
so that I might reveal to you, firmly and with words of truth, in order to respond about these things to those who sent you.