Ecclesiasticus 40:32
Begging will be sweet in the mouth of the unwise, but in his belly there shall burn a fire.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- In ore imprudentis condulcabitur inopia, et in ventre ejus ignis ardebit.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- Verse numbering differs here, so nothing is shown rather than the wrong verse.
Haydock's commentary
Unwise. Some read, "impudent man," with the Greek.
Fire. He shall feel the inconveniences of poverty; (Haydock) yet will not work, being lost to all shame. (Calmet)
Plato (Leg. 11.) orders magistrates to "clear the country of such an animal," zoou, (Haydock) and the Lacedemonians suffered no beggars among them.
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.