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Proverbs 27:19
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As in water face reflects face,So the heart of man reflects man.
As in water face reflects face, So the heart of man reflects man.
Like as in one water there appeare diuers faces: euen so diuers men haue diuers heartes.
As [in] water face [answereth] to face, so the heart of man to man.
As in water face reflects face, So a man's heart reveals the man.
As face reflects face in the water, so the heart of man reflects a man.
Just as you can see your own face reflected in water, so your heart reflects the kind of person you are.
As water reflects a face, So a man's heart reflects the man.
As in water face answereth to face: so the heart of man to man.
As in water face answereth to face, so the heart of man to man.
Like as in one water there apeare dyuerse faces, eue so dyuerse men haue dyuerse hertes.
Just as water mirrors your face, so your face mirrors your heart.
As in water face reflects face, So the heart of man reflects man.
As in water face answereth to face, So the heart of man to man.
Like face looking at face in water, so are the hearts of men to one another.
As in water face [answers] to face, So the heart of man to man.
As in water face [answereth] to face, so the heart of man to man.
As in water the face is reflected as a face, so a person's heart reflects the person.
You see your face in a mirror and your thoughts in the minds of others.
Just as water reflects the face, so one human heart reflects another.
As in water face answereth to face, so the heart of man to man.
As faces do not resemble faces, so hearts do not resemble hearts.
As water reflects a face, So a man's heart reflects the man.
As in water face answereth to face, so the heart of man to man.
As water acts as a mirror to a face, so the heart of man acts as a mirror to a man.
The way of the wicked and the foot of the transgressor shall perish in an evil day.
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.
Just as water reflects the face, so one human heart reflects another.
As in water, face answereth to face, so, the heart of man to man.
As the faces of them that look therein, shine in the water, so the hearts of men are laid open to the wise.
As the waters reflect face to face, so the heart of a person reflects the person.
As in water face reflects face, so the heart of man reflects the man.
As in water a face reflects the face, So the heart of a person reflects the person.
As water reflects your face, so your mind shows what kind of person you are.
It is your own face that you see reflected in the water and it is your own self that you see in your heart.
As water reflects the face, so the heart reflects the person.
As the cheris of men biholdinge schynen in watris; so the hertis of men ben opyn to prudent men.
As in water face answers to face, so the mind of man reflects the man.
As [in] water the face [is] to face, So the heart of man to man.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
in: James 1:22-25
so: Genesis 6:5, Psalms 33:15, Mark 7:21
Cross-References
The first one was very red at birth and covered with thick hair like a fur coat. So they named him Esau.
Take your bow and a quiver full of arrows, and go out into the open country to hunt some wild game for me.
Prepare my favorite dish, and bring it here for me to eat. Then I will pronounce the blessing that belongs to you, my firstborn son, before I die."
Then Isaac said to Jacob, "Come closer so I can touch you and make sure that you really are Esau."
But he did not recognize Jacob, because Jacob's hands felt hairy just like Esau's. So Isaac prepared to bless Jacob.
"But are you really my son Esau?" he asked. "Yes, I am," Jacob replied.
Then Isaac said, "Now, my son, bring me the wild game. Let me eat it, and then I will give you my blessing." So Jacob took the food to his father, and Isaac ate it. He also drank the wine that Jacob served him.
But the old prophet answered, "I am a prophet, too, just as you are. And an angel gave me this command from the Lord : ‘Bring him home with you so he can have something to eat and drink.'" But the old man was lying to him.
So Jeroboam told his wife, "Disguise yourself so that no one will recognize you as my wife. Then go to the prophet Ahijah at Shiloh—the man who told me I would become king.
You boast, "We have struck a bargain to cheat death and have made a deal to dodge the grave. The coming destruction can never touch us, for we have built a strong refuge made of lies and deception."
Gill's Notes on the Bible
As in water face [answereth] to face,.... As water is as a looking glass, in which a man may behold his own face and another's; or as the face in the water answers to the face of a man, and there is a great likeness between them. All things through water appear greater, as Seneca m observes, and so more clear and plain;
so the heart of man to man; one man's heart may be seen and discerned in some measure by another, as by his countenance; for though, as the poet n says, "frontis nulla fides", yet the countenance is often the index of the mind, though not an infallible one; wrath and anger in the breast may be seen in the face, as were in Cain's; thus Jacob saw some resentment at him in the mind of Laban, and judged he had some design of mischief against him by the change of his countenance; also what is in the heart of man is discerned by what comes out of it, by his words, and also by his actions; yea, a man may know in a good measure what is in another man's heart, by what he finds in his own: the word of God is a glass, or medium of vision, and like water, in which a man's face is seen, through which a man sees his own heart; the law is a glass, in which an enlightened person sees not only the perfections of God, the nature of righteousness, but also his sin, and the sinfulness of it; this glass mother magnifies nor multiplies his sins, but sets them in a true light before him, by which he discerns heart sins, and sees and knows the plague of his heart; and the Gospel is a glass, wherein he beholds the glory of Christ, sees and can discern whether Christ is formed in him, and he has the grace of the Spirit of God wrought in his soul, as faith, hope, love, repentance, humility, self-denial, c. moreover, as the face seen in the water is similar to a man's face, so the hearts of men are alike, not merely in a natural sense, see
Psalms 33:15 but in a moral and spiritual sense the hearts of unregenerate men are alike, and answer to each other; for they are all equally corrupted, one and depraved; the heart of every man is desperately wicked; the imaginations of the thoughts of the hearts or wicked men, one and all of them, are only evil, and that continually; their affections are inordinately the same, they love and hate the same persons and things; their minds and consciences are all defiled; their understandings are darkened; their wills are averse to that which is good, and bent on that which is evil: and so the hearts of good men are alike; they have all one heart and one way given them; their experiences agree as to the work of grace and conversion; they are all made sensible of sin, the evil of it, and danger by it; they are all brought off of their own righteousness, and are led to Christ to depend on him alone for righteousness, pardon, and eternal life; they are partakers of the same promises in the Gospel, and have the same enemies to grapple with, and the same temptations, trials, and exercises from sin, Satan, and the world; and they have the same things put into their hearts, the laws of God, the doctrines of Christ, and the several graces of the Spirit of Christ; so that there cannot be a greater likeness between a man's face and that seen in the water, than there is between the heart of one saint and another; the hearts of Old and New Testament saints, and of all in all ages and places, answer to one another. The Targum paraphrases it to a sense quite the reverse,
"as waters and as faces which are not like one to another, so the hearts of the children of men are not like one to another;''
and to the same sense are the Septuagint, Syriac, and Arabic versions.
m Nat. Quaest. l. 1. c. 6. n Juvenal. Satyr. 2. v. 8.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
As we see our own face when we look on the mirror-like surface of the water, so in every heart of man we may see our own likeness. In spite of all diversities we come upon the common human nature in which we all alike share. Others see in the reference to the reflection in the water the thought that we judge of others by ourselves, find them faithful or the reverse, as we ourselves are.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Proverbs 27:19. As in water face answereth to face — All men's hearts are pretty nearly alike; water is not more like to water, than one heart is to another. Or, as a man sees his face perfectly reflected by the water, when looking into it; so the wise and penetrating man sees generally what is in the heart of another by considering the general tenor of his words and actions.
"Surely, if each man saw another's heart
There would be no commerce;
All would disperse,
And live apart."
HERBERT.
