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Proverbs 27:19
Like face looking at face in water, so are the hearts of men to one another.
Proverbs 27:19 · Bible in Basic English
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Proverbs 27:19 in other translations
As in water face answereth to face, so the heart of man to man.
As water reflects the face, so the heart reflects the true man.
Like water reflects a face, so a man’s heart reflects the man.
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In context
16 He who keeps secret the secret of his friend, will get himself a name for good faith.
17 Iron makes iron sharp; so a man makes sharp his friend.
18 Whoever keeps a fig-tree will have its fruit; and the servant waiting on his master will be honoured.
19 Like face looking at face in water, so are the hearts of men to one another.
20 The underworld and Abaddon are never full, and the eyes of man have never enough.
21 The heating-pot is for silver and the oven-fire for gold, and a man is measured by what he is praised for.
22 Even if a foolish man is crushed with a hammer in a vessel among crushed grain, still his foolish ways will not go from him.
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