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Ecclesiasticus 43:30

What shall we be able to do to glorify him? for the Almighty himself is above all his works.

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The verse in its languages

Vulgate (Clementine)
Gloriantes ad quid valebimus ? ipse enim omnipotens super omnia opera sua.
Septuagint (Swete)
Verse numbering differs here, so nothing is shown rather than the wrong verse.

Haydock's commentary

Him. So the Greek reads. Vulgate seems to say, "boasting in all, what shall we be able to do?" What is man, fighting against the Lord! (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.