Proverbs 11:15
He shall be afflicted with evil, that is surety for a stranger: but he that is aware of the snares, shall be secure.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Affligetur malo qui fidem facit pro extraneo ; qui autem cavet laqueos securus erit.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- πονηρὸς κακοποιεῖ ὅταν συνμίξῃ δικαίῳ, μισεῖ δὲ ἦχον ἀσφαλείας.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- רַע יֵ֭רוֹעַ כִּי עָ֣רַב זָ֑ר וְשֹׂנֵ֖א תֹקְעִ֣ים בּוֹטֵֽחַ
Haydock's commentary
That is. Hebrew, "that hateth those who make agreements is secure." (Mont.[Montanus?])
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 John Cassian The Conferences of John Cassian. Part I. Containing Conferences I-X, Chapter XX. About discerning the thoughts, with an illustration from a good money-changer
We ought then carefully to notice this threefold order, and with a wise discretion to analyse the thoughts which arise in our hearts, tracking out their origin and cause and author in the first instance, that we may be able to consider how we ought to yield ourselves to them in accordance with the desert of those who suggest them so that we may, as the Lord’s command bids us, become good money-changers, whose highest skill and whose training is to test what is perfectly pure gold and what is commonly termed tested , or what is not sufficiently purified in the fire; and also with unerring skill not to be taken in by a common brass denarius, if by being coloured with bright gold it is made like some coin of great value; and not only shrewdly to recognize coins stamped with the heads of usurpers, but with a still shrewder skill to detect those which have the image of the right king, but are …