Ecclesiasticus 40:16
The weed growing over every water, and at the bank of the river, shall be pulled up before all grass.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Super omnem aquam viriditas, et ad oram fluminis ante omne fœnum evelletur.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- Verse numbering differs here, so nothing is shown rather than the wrong verse.
Haydock's commentary
Weed. Literally, "verdure." Greek Achei, (Haydock) properly denotes the rush, papyrus, which grows on the banks of the Nile, (Genesis xli. 2.; Calmet) and was used for fuel. (Alpin. i. 7.) (Matthew vi. 30.)
Thus the wicked will presently (Calmet) be treated. (Menochius)
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.