Proverbs 17:26
It is no good thing to do hurt to the just: nor to strike the prince, who judgeth right.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Non est bonum damnum inferre justo, nec percutere principem qui recta judicat.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ζημιοῦν ἄνδρα δίκαιον οὐ καλόν, οὐδὲ ὅσιον ἐπιβουλεύειν δυνάσταις δικαίοις.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- גַּ֤ם עֲנ֣וֹשׁ לַצַּדִּ֣יק לֹא ט֑וֹב לְהַכּ֖וֹת נְדִיבִ֣ים עַל יֹֽשֶׁר
Haydock's commentary
No good. But very criminal. See Jeremias vii. 31.
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.