Proverbs 27:19 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹⁹ As in water face answers to face, so the mind of man reflects the man.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁹ As in water face answereth to face, So the heart of man to man.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁹ As in water face answers to and reflects face, so the heart of man to man.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁹ As in water face answereth to face, So the heart of man to man.

Common English Bible

¹⁹ As water reflects the face, so the heart reflects one person to another.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁹ In the manner of faces looking into shining water, so are the hearts of men made manifest to the prudent.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁹ As the faces of them that look therein, shine in the water, so the hearts of men are laid open to the wise.

Proverbs 27:19 Cross References

Genesis 6:5

The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

Psalm 33:15

he who fashions the hearts of them all, and observes all their deeds.

Proverbs 27:18

He who tends a fig tree will eat its fruit, and he who guards his master will be honored.

Proverbs 27:20

Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied, and never satisfied are the eyes of man.

Mark 7:21

For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, fornication, theft, murder, adultery,