Proverbs 17:11
An evil man always seeketh quarrels: but a cruel angel shall be sent against him.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Semper jurgia quærit malus : angelus autem crudelis mittetur contra eum.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἀντιλογίας ἐγείρει πᾶς κακός, ὁ δὲ Κύριος ἄγγελον ἀνελεήμονα ἐκπέμψει αὐτῷ.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- אַךְ מְרִ֥י יְבַקֶּשׁ רָ֑ע וּמַלְאָ֥ךְ אַ֝כְזָרִ֗י יְשֻׁלַּח בּֽוֹ
Haydock's commentary
Angel. Messenger of death, (Menochius) which is sometimes inflicted by good, at others by bad, angels of death, or satan, 2 Corinthians xii. 7., and Psalm lxxvii. 49.
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.