Ecclesiasticus 36:20
The belly will devour all meat, yet one is better than another.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Omnem escam manducabit venter : et est cibus cibo melior.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- Verse numbering differs here, so nothing is shown rather than the wrong verse.
Haydock's commentary
Another. Thus act discreetly in the pursuit of knowledge. The good may be distinguished from bad, as easily as venison can from other meats. (Calmet)
As there is a difference of meats, so must discretion be used in words, in the choice of a wife, &c. (Worthington)
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.