Proverbs 21:18
The wicked is delivered up for the just: and the unjust for the righteous.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Pro justo datur impius, et pro rectis iniquus.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- περικάθαρμα δὲ δικαίου ἄνομος.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- כֹּ֣פֶר לַצַּדִּ֣יק רָשָׁ֑ע וְתַ֖חַת יְשָׁרִ֣ים בּוֹגֵֽד
Haydock's commentary
Righteous. Many are deterred from wickedness by the punishment of malefactors, whose injuries are frequently irreparable. God abandoned Pharao and Aman to save his people. He treated them as victims of wrath, Isaias xliii. 3.
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.