Translations
Louis Segond 1910
Qu'un autre te loue, et non ta bouche, Un étranger, et non tes lèvres.
KJV
Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips.
Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips.
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less than they are. But this is not always praiseworthy---neither in good things, since according to Prov. 27:2, "Let another praise thee, and not thy own mouth"---nor even in evil things, because it is written in condemnation of certain people ( Is. 3:9 ): "They have proclaimed…
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Patrologia Latina Vol. 96 (Migne)
Quomodo Salomoni praecipienti, Laudet te os alienum, et non tuum, extranei magis quam labia tua (Prov. XXVII, 2) , videatur Job contraria dixisse, cum laudes suas sic enarrat dicens, Oculus fui caeco, et pes claudo, etc. (Job XXIX, 15) . RESPONSIO. In eo quod dicit, laudet…
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Patrologia Latina Vol. 134 (Migne)
fuisse: Vas electionis est iste mihi (Act. IX, 15) ; quia non facio contra illud: Laudet te alienus (Prov. XXVII, 2) , etc.: quoniam non causa meae laudis, sed vestrae salutis, ne pseudoapostolis fidem accommodetis, dico. Qua nempe intentione, post exhortationem collationis, sui…
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