Amos 5:9
He that with a smile bringeth destruction upon the strong, and waste upon the mighty.
Challoner: With a smileThat is, with all ease, and without making any effort.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- qui subridet vastitatem super robustum, et depopulationem super potentem affert.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ὁ διαιρῶν συντριμμὸν ἐπ᾽ ἰσχύν, καὶ ταλαιπωρίαν ἐπὶ ὀχύρωμα ἐπάγων.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- הַמַּבְלִ֥יג שֹׁ֖ד עַל עָ֑ז וְשֹׁ֖ד עַל מִבְצָ֥ר יָבֽוֹא
Haydock's commentary
With a smile. That is, with all ease, and without making any effort. (Challoner)
Aquila has "grinning," to shew displeasure. (St. Jerome)
Hebrew, "he strengthens the oppressor against the strong," so that those whom he pleases to chastise cannot escape.
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.