Proverbs 2:19
None that go in unto her shall return again, neither shall they take hold of the paths of life,
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Omnes qui ingrediuntur ad eam non revertentur, nec apprehendent semitas vitæ.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- πάντες οἱ πορευόμενοι ἐν αὐτῇ οὐκ ἀναστρέψουσιν οὐδὲ μὴ καταλάβωσιν τρίβους εὐθείας· οὐ γὰρ καταλαμβάνονται ὑπὸ ἐνιαυτῶν ζωῆς.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- כָּל בָּ֭אֶיהָ לֹ֣א יְשׁוּב֑וּן וְלֹֽא יַ֝שִּׂ֗יגוּ אָרְח֥וֹת חַיִּֽים
Haydock's commentary
Life. A sincere conversion is so rare among people once addicted to impurity, (Haydock) which resembles a deep pit. (Calmet)
This illness is hardly removed. (Menochius)
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
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm LXXVIII
22. “And He remembered that they are flesh, a spirit going and not returning” ( ver. 39 ). Therefore calling them and pitying them through His grace, He called them back Himself, because of themselves they could not return. For how doth flesh return, “a spirit walking and not turning back,” while a weight of evil deserts doth weigh it down unto the lowest and far places of evil, save through the election of grace?…For thus also is solved this no unimportant question, how it is written in the Proverbs, when the Scripture was speaking of the way of iniquity, “all they that walk in her shall not return.” For it hath been so spoken as if all ungodly men were to be despaired of: but the Scripture did only commend grace; for of himself man is able to walk in that way, but is not able of himself to return, except when called back by grace.