Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752

Proverbs 20:6-14 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

6. Many men are called merciful: but who shall find a faithful man?

7. The just that walketh in his simplicity, shall leave behind him blessed children.

8. The king, that sitteth on the throne of judgment, scattereth away all evil with his look.

9. Who can say: My heart is clean, I am pure from sin?

10. Diverse weights and diverse measures, both are abominable before God.

11. By his inclinations a child is known, if his works be clean and right.

12. The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the Lord hath made them both.

13. Love not sleep, lest poverty oppress thee: open thy eyes, and be filled with bread.

14. It is nought, it is nought, saith every buyer: and when he is gone away, then he will boast.