Proverbs 20:26
A wise king scattereth the wicked, and bringeth over them the wheel.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Dissipat impios rex sapiens, et incurvat super eos fornicem.
- Septuagint (Swete) shown from Proverbs 20:20
- λικμήτωρ ἀσεβῶν βασιλεὺς σοφός, καὶ ἐπιβαλεῖ αὐτοῖς τροχόν.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- מְזָרֶ֣ה רְ֭שָׁעִים מֶ֣לֶךְ חָכָ֑ם וַיָּ֖שֶׁב עֲלֵיהֶ֣ם אוֹפָֽן
Haydock's commentary
Wheel. Or triumphal arch, fornicem. (Ven. Bede; Jansenius)
He will make his enemies lie prostrate under his chariot-wheels, 2 Kings xii. 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.
The Fathers on this verse
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm XII
9. “The ungodly walk in a circle round about” ( ver. 8 ): that is, in the desire of things temporal, which revolves as a wheel in a repeated circle of seven days; and therefore they do not arrive at the eighth, that is, at eternity, for which this Psalm is entitled. So too it is said by Solomon, “For the wise king is the winnower of the ungodly, and he bringeth on them the wheel of the wicked. After Thine height Thou hast multiplied the sons of men.” For there is in temporal things too a multiplication, which turns away from the unity of God. Hence “the corruptible body weigheth down the soul, and the earthy tabernacle presseth down the mind that museth upon many things.” But the righteous are multiplied “after the height of God,” when “they shall go from strength to strength.”