Proverbs 19:9
A false witness shall not be unpunished: and he that speaketh lies, shall perish.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Falsus testis non erit impunitus, et qui loquitur mendacia peribit.
- Septuagint (Swete) shown from Proverbs 19:6
- μάρτυς ψευδὴς οὐκ ἀτιμώρητος ἔσται, ὃς δ᾽ ἂν ἐκκαύσῃ κακίαν ἀπολεῖται ὑπ᾽ αὐτῆς.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- עֵ֣ד שְׁ֭קָרִים לֹ֣א יִנָּקֶ֑ה וְיָפִ֖יחַ כְּזָבִ֣ים יֹאבֵֽד
The Fathers on this verse
St John Cassian The Conferences of John Cassian. Part III. Containing Conferences XVIII.-XXIV, Chapter IX. Of the care with which a monk should preserve the recollection of God
I should say then that the saints who keep a firm hold of the recollection of God and are borne along, as it were, with their steps suspended on a line stretched out on high, may be rightly compared to rope dancers, commonly called funambuli, who risk all their safety and life on the path of that very narrow rope, with no doubt that they will immediately meet with a most dreadful death if their foot swerves or trips in the very slightest degree, or goes over the line of the course in which alone is safety. …