Proverbs 13:14
The law of the wise is a fountain of life, that he may decline from the ruin of death.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Lex sapientis fons vitæ, ut declinet a ruina mortis.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- νόμος σοφοῦ πηγὴ ζωῆς, ὁ δὲ ἄνους ὑπὸ παγίδος θανεῖται.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- תּוֹרַ֣ת חָ֭כָם מְק֣וֹר חַיִּ֑ים לָ֝ס֗וּר מִמֹּ֥קְשֵׁי מָֽוֶת
Haydock's commentary
That. Septuagint, "but the fool is slain in the snare." (Haydock)
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.