Proverbs 12:18
There is that promiseth, and is pricked as it were with a sword of conscience: but the tongue of the wise is health.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Est qui promittit, et quasi gladio pungitur conscientiæ : lingua autem sapientium sanitas est.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- εἰσὶν οἳ λέγοντες τιτρώσκουσιν μάχαιραι, γλῶσσαι δὲ σοφῶν ἰῶνται.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- יֵ֣שׁ בּ֭וֹטֶה כְּמַדְקְר֣וֹת חָ֑רֶב וּלְשׁ֖וֹן חֲכָמִ֣ים מַרְפֵּֽא
Haydock's commentary
Promiseth. Septuagint, "there are, who speaking, wound with the sword; but," &c. Hebrew bote (Haydock) means also, making a foolish promise, which causes remorse. (Menochius)
This was the case with Herod, when he was pleased with Herodias, Matthew xiv. 8. (Calmet)
Hebrew, "speaketh like the piercings of a sword," (Protestants; Haydock) as detractors, and those who disseminate impious and scandalous maxims do.
Haydock wrote amid the controversies of his day. The Church teaches that those born into communities separated from her cannot be charged with the sin of separation, and embraces them as brothers (CCC 818).
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.