Proverbs 21:12
The just considereth seriously the house of the wicked, that he may withdraw the wicked from evil.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Excogitat justus de domo impii, ut detrahat impios a malo.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- συνίει δίκαιος καρδίας ἀσεβῶν καὶ φαυλίζει ἀσεβεῖς ἐν κακοῖς.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- מַשְׂכִּ֣יל צַ֭דִּיק לְבֵ֣ית רָשָׁ֑ע מְסַלֵּ֖ף רְשָׁעִ֣ים לָרָֽע
Haydock's commentary
Evil. He tries every expedient to save him.
That. Septuagint, "he despises." Symmachus, "throws down."
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.