Proverbs 27:19
Good News Translation
It is your own face that you see reflected in the water and it is your own self that you see in your heart.

New Revised Standard Version
Just as water reflects the face, so one human heart reflects another.

Contemporary English Version
You see your face in a mirror and your thoughts in the minds of others.

New American Bible
As face mirrors face in water, so the heart reflects the person.

Douay-Rheims Bible
As the faces of them that look therein, shine in the water, so the hearts of men are laid open to the wise.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

As the faces of them that look therein, shine in the water, so the hearts of men are laid open to the wise.

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James 1:22-25 But be ye doers of the word and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. . . .

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Genesis 6:5 And God seeing that the wickedness of men was great on the earth, and that all the thought of their heart was bent upon evil at all times,

Psalm 33:15 He who hath made the hearts of every one of them: who understandeth all their works.

Mark 7:21 For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,

Context
Do not Boast about Tomorrow
18He that keepeth the fig tree, shall eat the fruit thereof: and he that is the keeper of his master, shall be glorified. 19As the faces of them that look therein, shine in the water, so the hearts of men are laid open to the wise.20Hell and destruction are never filled: so the eyes of men are never satisfied.…
Cross References
Proverbs 27:18
He that keepeth the fig tree, shall eat the fruit thereof: and he that is the keeper of his master, shall be glorified.

Proverbs 27:20
Hell and destruction are never filled: so the eyes of men are never satisfied.

Proverbs 27:18
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