Amos 6:14
You that rejoice in a thing of nought: you that say: Have we not taken unto us horns by our own strength?
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Qui lætamini in nihilo ; qui dicitis : Numquid non in fortitudine nostra assumpsimus nobis cornua ?
- Septuagint (Swete) shown from Amos 6:13
- οἱ εὐφραινόμενοι ἐπ᾽ οὐδενὶ λόγῳ, οἱ λέγοντες Οὐκ ἐν τῇ ἰσχύι ἡμῶν ἔσχομεν κέρατα;
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Amos 6:13
- הַשְּׂמֵחִ֖ים לְלֹ֣א דָבָ֑ר הָאֹ֣מְרִ֔ים הֲל֣וֹא בְחָזְקֵ֔נוּ לָקַ֥חְנוּ לָ֖נוּ קַרְנָֽיִם
Haydock's commentary
Naught: in your idols, which are nothing, (1 Corinthians viii. 4.) or in your own strength, fortifications, or allies.
Horns: glory and power. (Calmet)
Parata tollo cornua. (Horace, epod. 6.)
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.
The Fathers on this verse
St Jerome Against the Pelagians, Book II
Amos vi. 13 . We turn righteousness into wormwood.