Proverbs 1:17
But a net is spread in vain before the eyes of them that have wings.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Frustra autem jacitur rete ante oculos pennatorum.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- οὐ γὰρ ἀδίκως ἐκτείνεται δίκτυα πτερωτοῖς.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- כִּֽי חִ֭נָּם מְזֹרָ֣ה הָרָ֑שֶׁת בְּ֝עֵינֵ֗י כָל בַּ֥עַל כָּנָֽף
Haydock's commentary
Wings. If thou attend, therefore, to my instructions, their arts will be vain. (Ven. Bede)
They unjustly seek to deceive the pious. (Calmet)
Watchfulness will be the best protection against them. (Worthington)
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.
The Fathers on this verse
Clement of Alexandria The Stromata, or Miscellanies, Book III
Justitiam ergo et salutis harmoniam, quæ est veneranda firmaque, alii quidem, ut ostendimus, nimium intenderunt, blaspheme ac maledice cure quavis impietate suscipientes continentiam; cure pie liceret castitatem, qu secundum sanam regulam instituitur, eligere; gratias quidem agendo propter datam ipsis gratiam, non habendo antem odio creatumm, neque eos aspernando, qui juncti sunt matrimonio; est enim creatus mundus, cream est etiam castitas; ambo autem agant gratias in iis, in quibus sunt collocati, si modo ea quoque norunt, in quibus sunt collocati. …