Proverbs 21:25
Desires kill the slothful: for his hands have refused to work at all.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Desideria occidunt pigrum : noluerunt enim quidquam manus ejus operari.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἐπιθυμίαι ὀκνηρὸν ἀποκτείνουσιν, οὐ γὰρ προαιροῦνται αἱ χεῖρες αὐτοῦ ποιεῖν τι.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- תַּאֲוַ֣ת עָצֵ֣ל תְּמִיתֶ֑נּוּ כִּֽי מֵאֲנ֖וּ יָדָ֣יו לַעֲשֽׂוֹת
Haydock's commentary
At all. Hence his desires of riches and wisdom prove fruitless, chap. xiii. 4.
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 John Cassian The Conferences of John Cassian. Part III. Containing Conferences XVIII.-XXIV, Chapter II. How the old man exposed our errors
The feebleness of your ideas shows that you have not yet renounced worldly desires nor mortified your former lusts. For as the wandering character of your desires testifies to the sloth of your heart, this pilgrimage and absence from your kinsfolk, which you ought rather to endure with your heart, you do endure only with the flesh. For all these things would have been buried and altogether driven out of your hearts, if you had got hold of the right method of renunciation, and the main reason for the solitude in which we dwell. …