Proverbs 15:21
Folly is joy to the fool: and the wise man maketh straight his steps.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Stultitia gaudium stulto, et vir prudens dirigit gressus suos.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἀνοήτου τρίβοι ἐνδεεῖς φρενῶν, ἀνὴρ δὲ φρόνιμος κατευθύνων πορεύεται.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- אִ֭וֶּלֶת שִׂמְחָ֣ה לַחֲסַר לֵ֑ב וְאִ֥ישׁ תְּ֝בוּנָ֗ה יְיַשֶׁר לָֽכֶת
Haydock's commentary
Fool. He thinks himself the most happy of mortals. (Calmet)
Septuagint, "the ways of the fools are senseless." (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.