Proverbs 16:33
Lots are cast into the lap, but they are disposed of by the Lord.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Sortes mittuntur in sinum, sed a Domino temperantur.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- εἰς κόλπους ἐπέρχεται πάντα τοῖς ἀδίκοις, παρὰ δὲ Κυρίου πάντα τὰ δίκαια.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- בַּ֭חֵיק יוּטַ֣ל אֶת הַגּוֹרָ֑ל וּ֝מֵיְהוָ֗ה כָּל מִשְׁפָּטֽוֹ
Haydock's commentary
Lord. So the apostles had recourse to them, (Acts i. 26.) as the Cophts[Copts?] and Nestorians still do when there is a dispute about the election of a patriarch. (Renaudot iv. Perpet. i. 7. and 9.)
This mode may settle disputes, chap. xviii. 18. But we must not have recourse to it, except where the Church permits, lest we become the dupes of an idle curiosity. (Calmet)
Nothing happens by chance. (St. Augustine, City of God v. 9.)
Septuagint, "all things come into the breast of the unjust; but all just things proceed from the Lord." (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.