Ecclesiasticus 37:5
There is a companion who condoleth with his friend for his belly's sake, and he will take up a shield against enemy.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Sodalis amico condolet causa ventris, et contra hostem accipiet scutum.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- Verse numbering differs here, so nothing is shown rather than the wrong verse.
Haydock's commentary
Will. Grotius suspects that not is wanting. Yet, if such a false friend take up arms, it will only be (Calmet) for his own belly. (Menochius)
Not is ill-omitted in the Complutensian edition in the last part of the following verse.
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.