Ecclesiasticus 51:5
Out of the hands of them that sought my life, and from the gates of afflictions, which compassed me about:
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- de manibus quærentium animam meam, et de portis tribulationum quæ circumdederunt me ;
- Septuagint (Swete) shown from Ecclesiasticus 51:3
- καὶ ἐλυτρώσω με κατὰ τὸ πλῆθος ἐλέου καὶ ὀνόματός σου ἐκ βρυγμῶν ἕτοιμος εἰς βρῶμα, ἐκ χειρὸς ζητούντων τὴν ψυχήν μου, ἐκ πλειόνων θλίψεων ὧν ἔσχον,
Haydock's commentary
Gates. Greek, "many." (Haydock)
He exaggerates the danger to which he was exposed, as he was not miraculously delivered from the flames, &c., (Calmet) though this might be the case. At least he thanks God for preserving him (Haydock) from the various torments which were then in use.
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.