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Judges 5:6

In the days of Samgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jahel the paths rested: and they that went by them, walked through by-ways.

Challoner: The paths restedThe ways to the sanctuary of God were unfrequented: and men walked in the by-ways of error and sin.

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The verse in its languages

Vulgate (Clementine): In diebus Samgar filii Anath, in diebus Jahel quieverunt semitæ : et qui ingrediebantur per eas, ambulaverunt per calles devios.
Septuagint (Swete): ἐν ἡμέραις Σαμεγὰρ υἱοῦ Ἀνάθ, ἐν ἡμέραις Ἰαήλ, ἐξέλιπον ὁδοὺς καὶ ἐπορεύθησαν ἀτραπούς, ἐπορεύθησαν ὁδοὺς διεστραμμένας.
Hebrew (WLC): בִּימֵ֞י שַׁמְגַּ֤ר בֶּן עֲנָת֙ בִּימֵ֣י יָעֵ֔ל חָדְל֖וּ אֳרָח֑וֹת וְהֹלְכֵ֣י נְתִיב֔וֹת יֵלְכ֕וּ אֳרָח֖וֹת עֲקַלְקַלּֽוֹת

Haydock's commentary

The paths rested. The ways to the sanctuary of God were unfrequented; and men walked in the bye-ways of error and sin. (Challoner)

Though Samgar and Jehel were so remarkable for their valour, as they had manifested on a late occasion, yet they did not prevent the incursions of the enemy both on the south and north. (Haydock)

The merchants durst not travel, as usual, through the country. (Drusius)

God had threatened the faithless Israel with this punishment, Leviticus xxvi. 22., and Lamentations i. 4., and Isaias xxiii. 8. (Calmet)

They that went by them formerly without apprehension, are now forced to seek out bye-ways. (Haydock)

Thus was justly punished the negligence of those who observed not the festivals of the Lord, nor frequented his tabernacle. (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.