Proverbs 27:19

When a person looks in the water, he sees his own face; similarly [SIM], when we look at a person’s behavior, we know what he is thinking.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

As in water face answereth to face, so the heart of man to man.

In Context

18Those who take care of fig trees will have figs to eat; similarly, servants who protect their master will be honored by him.

20It is as though the place where the dead people are is always wanting more people to die and come there; and humans [SYN] are always wanting to acquire more things, too.

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Cross References

Genesis 6:5Yahweh saw that people on the earth had become very wicked, and that everything they thought about evil things continually.

Mark 7:21Specifically, it is people’s innermost being that causes them to think things that are evil; they act immorally, they steal things, they commit murder.

Matthew Henry on Proverbs 27:19

18 Whoso keepeth the fig tree shall eat the fruit thereof: so he that waiteth on his master shall be honoured. This is designed to encourage diligence, faithfulness, and constancy, even in mean employments. Though the calling be laborious and despicable, yet those who keep to it will find there is something to be got by it. 1. Let not a poor gardener, who keeps the fig-tree, be discouraged; though it require constant care and attendance to nurse up fig-trees, and, when they have grown to maturity, to keep them in… Read the whole commentary →

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