Deuteronomy 32:31
For our God is not as their gods: our enemies themselves are judges.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Non enim est Deus noster ut dii eorum : et inimici nostri sunt judices.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ὅτι οὐκ ἔστιν ὡς ὁ θεὸς ἡμῶν οἱ θεοὶ αὐτῶν· οἱ δὲ ἐχθροὶ ἡμῶν ἀνόητοι.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- כִּ֛י לֹ֥א כְצוּרֵ֖נוּ צוּרָ֑ם וְאֹיְבֵ֖ינוּ פְּלִילִֽים
Haydock's commentary
Judges. The Egyptians, Amalecites, &c., had witnessed the miracles which God had now wrought for 40 years' time, in favour of his people. (Haydock)
They knew also how the Israelites had been punished for their sins. (Menochius)
Though they followed a false religion themselves, they could discern the beauty of the true one. (Worthington)
Video meliora proboque
Deteriora sequor. (Ovid)
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 John Cassian The Conferences of John Cassian. Part I. Containing Conferences I-X, Chapter XVIII. A question whether among the devils there is any order observed in the attack, or system in its changes
Germanus : Must we then believe that wickedness is arranged and so to speak systematized among them in such a way that there is some order in the changes observed by them, and a regular plan of attack carried out, though it is clear that method and system can only exist among good and upright men, as Scripture says: “Thou shalt seek wisdom among the ungodly and shalt not find it; and: “our enemies are senseless;” and this: “There is neither wisdom, nor courage, nor counsel among the ungodly.”