“Qui despicit amicum suum indigens corde est ; vir autem prudens tacebit.”
“He that is void of wisdom despiseth his neighbour: but a man of understanding holdeth his peace. void: Heb. destitute of heart”
“Whoever shows contempt for his neighbor lacks judgment, but a man of understanding remains silent.”
“One who despises his neighbor is void of wisdom, but a man of understanding holds his peace.”
“He that despiseth his neighbor is void of wisdom; But a man of understanding holdeth his peace.”
Mean. Literally, “indigent” of sense. (Haydock) — We must put up with some faults, as none are without. (Horace i. Sat. 3.) (Calmet)
The ways of wickedness are dangerous and destructive: The wicked shall fail into misery and ruin by their own wickedness, and be taken in their own naughtiness as in a snare. O Israel! thou hast destroyed thyself. Their sin will be their punishment; that very thing by which they contrived to shelter themselves will make against them.