Ecclesiasticus 34:21
The offering of him that sacrificeth of a thing wrongfully gotten, is stained, and the mockeries of the unjust are not acceptable.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Immolantis ex iniquo oblatio est maculata, et non sunt beneplacitæ subsannationes injustorum.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ᵇυσιάζων ἐξ ἀδίκου, προσφορὰ μεμαοκημένη.
Haydock's commentary
Mockeries. Some Greek copies have "gifts." Such unjust presents or sacrifices, God will abhor, Isaias xli. 8., and Deuteronomy xxiv. 15. (Calmet)
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.