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Douay-Rheims
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It is an honour for a man to separate himself from quarrels: but all fools are meddling with reproaches.
King James
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It is an honour for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling.
Louis Second
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C'est une gloire pour l'homme de s'abstenir des querelles, Mais tout insensé se livre à l'emportement
Martin Luther
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Es ist dem Mann eine Ehre, vom Hader bleiben; aber die gerne hadern, sind allzumal Narren.
Vulgate
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honor est homini qui separat se a contentionibus omnes autem stulti miscentur contumeliis

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary


honor : honor, esteem, public office.
honor : official dignity or office, ornaments, esteem.
qui : quae : que : quod : which, what, that.
qui : (masc. pl. nom.) Let THOSE (men) WHO have eyes to see..
qui : (masc. neut. nom.) (the prince) WHO loved a milkmaid.
qui : (question) how? in what way? / somehow / wherewith.
autem : but, on the other hand, however, moreover, also.