Job 20:12
For when evil shall be sweet in his mouth, he will hide it under his tongue.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Cum enim dulce fuerit in ore ejus malum, abscondet illud sub lingua sua.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἐὰν γλυκανθῇ ἐν στόματι αὐτοῦ κακία, κρύψει αὐτὴν ὑπὸ τὴν γλῶσσαν αὐτοῦ,
- Hebrew (WLC)
- אִם תַּמְתִּ֣יק בְּפִ֣יו רָעָ֑ה יַ֝כְחִידֶ֗נָּה תַּ֣חַת לְשׁוֹנֽוֹ
Haydock's commentary
Evil of any king, and particularly (Haydock) injustice, which at first seems sweet, but will prove in the end a mortal poison. (Calmet)
The unjust will be forced to restore his ill-gotten goods, or suffer eternally for the neglect, ver. 14, 18. (Haydock)
Habitual sins are also overcome with most difficulty, ver. 11. (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.