Ecclesiasticus 40:22
Thy eye desireth favour and beauty, but more than these green sown fields.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Gratiam et speciem desiderabit oculus tuus : et super hæc virides sationes.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- Verse numbering differs here, so nothing is shown rather than the wrong verse.
Haydock's commentary
Green. "The sight of no colour is more agreeable to the eyes." (Pliny xxxvii. 1.)
The Church is more excellent than the synagogue. (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.