Jeremias 5:4
But I said: Perhaps these are poor and foolish, that know not the way of the Lord, the judgment of their God.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Ego autem dixi : Forsitan pauperes sunt et stulti, ignorantes viam Domini, judicium Dei sui.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ἐγὼ εἶπα Ἴσως πτωχοί εἰσιν, διότι οὐκ ἐδυνάσθησαν, ὅτι οὐκ ἔγνωσαν ὁδὸν Κυρίου καὶ κρίσιν θεοῦ·
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַאֲנִ֣י אָמַ֔רְתִּי אַךְ דַּלִּ֖ים הֵ֑ם נוֹאֲל֕וּ כִּ֣י לֹ֤א יָדְעוּ֙ דֶּ֣רֶךְ יְהוָ֔ה מִשְׁפַּ֖ט אֱלֹהֵיהֶֽם
Haydock's commentary
Foolish idiots, (Calmet) who have had no means of receiving instruction. (Haydock)
Such might be more excusable; but when the chiefs offend, the evil is irremediable.
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.