Proverbs 19:23
The fear of the Lord is unto life: and he shall abide in fulness without being visited with evil.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Timor Domini ad vitam, et in plenitudine commorabitur absque visitatione pessima.
- Septuagint (Swete) shown from Proverbs 19:20
- φόβος Κυρίου εἰς ζωὴν ἀνδρί, ὁ δὲ ἄφοβος αὐλισθήσεται ἐν τόποις οὗ οὐκ ἐπισκοπεῖται γνῶσις.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- יִרְאַ֣ת יְהוָ֣ה לְחַיִּ֑ים וְשָׂבֵ֥עַ יָ֝לִ֗ין בַּל יִפָּ֥קֶד רָֽע
Haydock's commentary
Life. Both temporal and eternal, chap. x. 27. (Calmet)
With evil. Literally, "the worst," pessima. (Haydock)
Sixtus V, "by the most wicked one." The devil shall have no power over him.
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
Clement of Alexandria The Stromata, or Miscellanies, Chapter XVIII. The Mosaic Law the Fountain of All Ethics, and the Source from Which the Greeks Drew Theirs
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