Proverbs 21:4
Haughtiness of the eyes is the enlarging of the heart: the lamp of the wicked is sin.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Exaltatio oculorum est dilatatio cordis ; lucerna impiorum peccatum.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- μεγαλόφρων ἐφ᾽ ὕβρει θρασυκάρδιος· λαμπτὴρ δὲ ἀσεβῶν ἁμαρτία.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- רוּם עֵ֭ינַיִם וּרְחַב לֵ֑ב נִ֖ר רְשָׁעִ֣ים חַטָּֽאת
Haydock's commentary
Heart. Or when it is proud, it causes the eyes to appear so too. (Calmet)
Lamp. Protestants, "ploughing of the wicked is sin." When it is done with a bad motive, out of pride. Hebrew, "the haughtiness of the eyes, and the enlarging of the heart, are the labour ("tillage," Montanus; "thought," Pagnin) of the wicked; yea, sin." (Haydock)
Those things are their employment, and their sin. (Calmet)
Septuagint and Vulgate may also mean, "sin is the lamp and exultation of the wicked." (Haydock)
Haydock wrote amid the controversies of his day. The Church teaches that those born into communities separated from her cannot be charged with the sin of separation, and embraces them as brothers (CCC 818).
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.