Proverbs 20:30
The blueness of a wound shall wipe away evils: and stripes in the more inward parts of the belly.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Livor vulneris absterget mala, et plagæ in secretioribus ventris.
- Septuagint (Swete) shown from Proverbs 20:24
- ὑπώπια καὶ συντρίμματα συναντᾷ κακοῖς, πληγαὶ δὲ εἰς ταμεῖα κοιλίας.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- חַבֻּר֣וֹת פֶּ֭צַע תמריק בְּרָ֑ע וּ֝מַכּ֗וֹת חַדְרֵי בָֽטֶן
Haydock's commentary
Evils. The wicked shall derive benefit from correction.
Belly. They shall feel the remorse of conscience, as Chaldean seems to indicate. (Calmet)
A serious illness often causes people to repent. (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 Gregory the Great The Book of Pastoral Rule, How the whole and the sick are to be admonished
The sick are to be admonished to consider how great health of the heart is in bodily affliction, which recalls the mind to knowledge of itself, and renews the memory of infirmity which health for the most part casts away, so that the spirit, which is carried out of itself into elation, may be reminded by the smitten flesh from which it suffers to what condition it is subject. Which thing is rightly signified to Balaam (had he but been willing to follow obediently the voice of God ) in the very retardation of his journey ( Num. xxii. 23 , seq. ). For Balaam is on his way to attain his purpose; but the animal which is under him thwarts his desire. …