Proverbs 27:19 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

More versions

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

And 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 that fashioneth the hearts of them all, That considereth all their works.

Proverbs 27:18

Whoso keepeth the fig tree shall eat the fruit thereof; And he that waiteth on his master shall be honoured.

Proverbs 27:20

Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied; And the eyes of man are never satisfied.

Mark 7:21

For from within, out of the heart of men, evil thoughts proceed, fornications, thefts, murders, adulteries,