Ecclesiasticus 34:28
When one buildeth up, and another pulleth down: what profit have they but the labour?
Open Ecclesiasticus 34:28 in the Motif Searcher, word by word across all five texts →Show on the spiral →The verse in its languages
- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Unus ædificans, et unus destruens : quid prodest illis, nisi labor ?
- Septuagint (Swete)
- εἷς οἰκοδομῶν καὶ εἷς καθαιρῶν, τί ὠφέλησαν πλεῖον ἢ κόπου;
Haydock's commentary
Labour? So, if your sacrifices be ill-gotten, they will not be received; and if you relapse, you will be as bad as ever. (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.