Proverbs 16:3
Lay open thy works to the Lord: and thy thoughts shall be directed.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Revela Domino opera tua, et dirigentur cogitationes tuæ.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- The Septuagint lacks this proverb. Its nearby Greek-only line about seeking the Lord (Swete 16:8) is a different saying.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- גֹּ֣ל אֶל יְהוָ֣ה מַעֲשֶׂ֑יךָ וְ֝יִכֹּ֗נוּ מַחְשְׁבֹתֶֽיךָ
Haydock's commentary
Open. Hebrew, "roll on," and refer all to God's glory. (Menochius) (Psalm xxxvi. 5.)
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 Jerome Against the Pelagians, Book III
8. A. We must use the words of Scripture not as you propose, but as truth and reason demand. Jacob says in his prayer, “If the Lord God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on, so that I come again to my father’s house in peace, then shall the Lord be my God, and this stone, which I have set up for a token, shall be God’s house; and of all that Thou shalt give me I will surely give the tenth unto Thee.” He did not say, If thou preserve my free choice, and I gain by my toil food and raiment, and return to my father’s house. He refers everything to the will of God, that he may be found worthy to receive that for which he prays. On Jacob’s return from Mesopotamia an army of angels met him, who are called God’s camp. …