What does Proverbs Chapter 10 say, and which statements belong to its speaker?

Atlas of Saints · Chapter summary

Opening comparisons and commands retain the chapter’s wording. The speaker’s examples and future assertions remain attributed. Closing sayings are preserved without added events or universal guarantees.

Chapter breakdown

Proverbs 10’s edition heading announces twenty following chapters of wise sayings on wisdom, folly, virtue and vice. A wise son gladdens father, foolish son saddens mother. Wicked treasures shall profit nothing, justice deliver from death; the Lord will not afflict the just soul with famine and will disappoint wicked deceit. Sloth worked poverty, industry gets riches; trusting lies feeds winds and pursues flying birds. Harvest gathering is wise, summer snorting confusion. Blessing rests on just head, iniquity covers wicked mouth; just memory is praised, wicked name shall rot. The wise receive precepts and fools are beaten with lips. Sincere walking has confidence; perverted ways shall be manifest.

Winking shall cause sorrow, foolish lips be beaten. Just mouth is life’s vein, wicked mouth covers iniquity. Hatred stirs strife and charity covers all sins. Wise lips hold wisdom, the senseless back a rod; wise people store knowledge and fool’s mouth nears confusion. Rich substance is strength’s city, poor people’s fear their poverty. Just work is unto life and wicked fruit sin. Correction is life’s way, forsaken reproof straying. Lying lips hide hatred and reproach utterance is foolish. Many words lack not sin, restrained lips are most wise. Just tongue is choice silver, wicked heart worthless; just lips teach many, ignorant shall die lacking understanding.

The Lord’s blessing makes rich without joined affliction. Fool’s mischief is sport, wisdom prudence. Wicked fear shall come and just desire be granted; as a passing tempest the wicked shall cease, the just an everlasting foundation. Sluggard is vinegar to teeth and smoke to eyes to senders. Fear shall prolong days, wicked years shorten; just expectation is joy, wicked hope shall perish. The Lord’s way strengthens upright and frightens evildoers. Just shall never move, wicked not dwell earthward; just mouth shall bring wisdom, perverse tongue perish; just lips consider acceptable things, wicked mouth utters perversity. The sayings remain attributed without a royal audience, spiritual-famine substitution or newly staged storm.

The story inside

Opening: Opening comparisons and commands retain the chapter’s wording. Development: The speaker’s examples and future assertions remain attributed. Conclusion: Closing sayings are preserved without added events or universal guarantees.

Lessons worth keeping

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Opening comparisons and commands retain the chapter’s wording.
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The speaker’s examples and future assertions remain attributed.
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Closing sayings are preserved without added events or universal guarantees.

Test your recall

Which images and requests does the speaker use, and what does the chapter leave unresolved?

Source edition and notes

Douay–Rheims, revised by Richard Challoner (1749–1752). Project Gutenberg no. 1581. Locators refer to lines in the admitted pg1581.txt edition. Source notes may include Challoner commentary.

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In the twenty following chapters are contained many wise sayings and axioms, relating to wisdom and folly, virtue and vice. 10:1. A wise son maketh the father glad: but a foolish son is the sorrow of his mother. 10:2. Treasures of wickedness shall profit nothing: but justice shall deliver from death. 10:3. The Lord will not afflict the soul of the just with famine, and
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10:10. He that winketh with the eye, shall cause sorrow: and the foolish in lips shall be beaten. 10:11. The mouth of the just is a vein of life: and the mouth of the wicked covereth iniquity. 10:12. Hatred stirreth up strifes: and charity covereth all sins.
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shall die in the want of understanding. 10:22. The blessing of the Lord maketh men rich: neither shall affliction be joined to them. 10:23. A fool worketh mischief as it were for sport: but wisdom is prudence to a man. 10:24. That which the wicked feareth, shall come upon him: to the just