Ecclesiasticus 43:21
He shall pour frost as salt upon the earth: and when it freezeth, it shall become like the tops of thistles.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Gelu sicut salem effundet super terram : et dum gelaverit, fiet tamquam cacumina tribuli.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- Verse numbering differs here, so nothing is shown rather than the wrong verse.
Haydock's commentary
Thistles. Greek, "stakes," pointed as it were with steel. (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.