Proverbs 10:23
A fool worketh mischief as it were for sport: but wisdom is prudence to a man.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Quasi per risum stultus operatur scelus, sapientia autem est viro prudentia.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἐν γέλωτι ἄφρων πράσσει κακά, ἡ δὲ σοφία ἀνδρὶ τίκτει φρόνησιν.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- כִּשְׂח֣וֹק לִ֭כְסִיל עֲשׂ֣וֹת זִמָּ֑ה וְ֝חָכְמָ֗ה לְאִ֣ישׁ תְּבוּנָֽה
Haydock's commentary
Man. He is enabled to see the evil of sin, and to avoid it, Job xv. 16.
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.