Ecclesiasticus 42:13
For from garments cometh a moth, and from a woman the iniquity of a man.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- de vestimentis enim procedit tinea, et a muliere iniquitas viri.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- Verse numbering differs here, so nothing is shown rather than the wrong verse.
Haydock's commentary
Man. Greek, "woman." Malice is natural to her. Beauty becomes her ruin, as well as that of others. (Calmet)
The Fathers compare women to a loadstone. (St. Basil)
Men who come near them, are greatly exposed. (Calmet)
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.