Proverbs 27:19
Like water reflects a face, so a man’s heart reflects the man.
World Messianic Bible
In The King James Version
As in water face answereth to face, so the heart of man to man.
In Context
18Whoever tends the fig tree shall eat its fruit. He who looks after his master shall be honored.
20Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied; and a man’s eyes are never satisfied.
Cross References
Genesis 6:5The LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of man’s heart was continually only evil.
Mark 7:21For from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts,
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 →