Ecclesiasticus 51:7
From the depth of the belly of hell, and from an unclean tongue, and from lying words, from an unjust king, and from a slanderous tongue:
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- de altitudine ventris inferi, et a lingua coinquinata, et a verbo mendacii, a rege iniquo, et a lingua injusta.
- Septuagint (Swete) shown from Ecclesiasticus 51:5
- ἐκ βάθους κοιλίας ᾅδου, καὶ ἀπὸ γλώσσης ἀκαθάρτου καὶ λόγου ψευδοῦς.
Haydock's commentary
Hell. The grave. I was preserved like Jonas. (Calmet)
Unjust. Greek, "the accusation was made to the king, by an unjust tongue. My soul approached unto death, and my life," &c. (Haydock)
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.