Proverbs 11:18
The wicked maketh an unsteady work: but to him that soweth justice, there is a faithful reward.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Impius facit opus instabile, seminanti autem justitiam merces fidelis.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἀσεβὴς ποιεῖ ἔργα ἄδικα, σπέρμα δὲ δικαίων μισθὸς ἀληθείας.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- רָשָׁ֗ע עֹשֶׂ֥ה פְעֻלַּת שָׁ֑קֶר וְזֹרֵ֥עַ צְ֝דָקָ֗ה שֶׂ֣כֶר אֱמֶֽת
The Fathers on this verse
St Gregory Nazianzen Oration on the Holy Lights
X. For the same Word is on the one hand terrible through its nature to those who are unworthy, and on the other through its loving kindness can be received by those who are thus prepared, who have driven out the unclean and worldly spirit from their souls, and have swept and adorned their own souls by self-examination, and have not left them idle or without employment, so as again to be occupied with greater armament by the seven spirits of wickedness…the same number as are reckoned of virtue (for that which is hardest to fight against calls for the sternest efforts)…but besides fleeing from evil, practise virtue, making Christ entirely, or at any rate to the greatest extent possible, to dwell within them, so that the power of evil cannot meet with any empty place to fill it again with himself, and make the last state of that man worse than the first, by the greater energy of his assault …