Proverbs 1:32
The turning away of little ones shall kill them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Aversio parvulorum interficiet eos, et prosperitas stultorum perdet illos.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἀνθ᾽ ὧν γὰρ ἠδίκουν νηπίους φονευθήσονται, καὶ ἐξετασμὸς ἀσεβεῖς ὀλεῖ.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- כִּ֤י מְשׁוּבַ֣ת פְּתָיִ֣ם תַּֽהַרְגֵ֑ם וְשַׁלְוַ֖ת כְּסִילִ֣ים תְּאַבְּדֵֽם
Haydock's commentary
Turning. Hebrew, "the ease of the simple," who have given way to deceit. (Calmet)
Them. The objects of their eager desires, prove their ruin, Ezechiel xvi. 49.
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
St Clement of Rome The First Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians, Chapter LVII
Ye therefore, who laid the foundation of this sedition, submit yourselves to the presbyters, and receive correction so as to repent, bending the knees of your hearts. Learn to be subject, laying aside the proud and arrogant self-confidence of your tongue. For it is better for you that ye should occupy a humble but honourable place in the flock of Christ, than that, being highly exalted, ye should be cast out from the hope of His people. For thus speaketh all-virtuous Wisdom: “Behold, I will bring forth to you the words of my Spirit, and I will teach you my speech. …
St Gregory the Great The Book of Pastoral Rule, How those are to be admonished with whom everything succeeds according to their wish, and those with whom nothing does
( Admonition 27.) Differently to be admonished are those who prosper in what they desire in temporal matters, and those who covet indeed the things that are of this world, but yet are wearied with the labour of adversity. For those who prosper in what they desire in temporal matters are to be admonished, when all things answer to their wishes, lest, through fixing their heart on what is given, they neglect to seek the giver; lest they love their pilgrimage instead of their country; lest they turn the supplies for their journey into hindrances to their arrival at its end; lest, delighted with the light of the moon by night, they shrink from beholding the clearness of the sun. …