1 Kings 12:21
And turn not aside after vain things which shall never profit you, nor deliver you, because they are vain.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Et nolite declinare post vana, quæ non proderunt vobis, neque eruent vos, quia vana sunt.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ μὴ παραβῆτε ὀπίσω τῶν μηθὲν ὄντων, οἳ οὐ περανοῦσιν οὐθὲν καὶ οἳ οὐκ ἐξελοῦνται, ὅτι οὐθέν εἰσιν.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וְלֹ֖א תָּס֑וּרוּ כִּ֣י אַחֲרֵ֣י הַתֹּ֗הוּ אֲשֶׁ֧ר לֹֽא יוֹעִ֛ילוּ וְלֹ֥א יַצִּ֖ילוּ כִּי תֹ֥הוּ הֵֽמָּה
Haydock's commentary
Vain and wicked idols. Hebrew thohu, full of "confusion" and disorder.
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.