Proverbs 24:22
For their destruction shall rise suddenly: and who knoweth the ruin of both?
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- quoniam repente consurget perditio eorum, et ruinam utriusque quis novit ?
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἐξαίφνης γὰρ τίσονται τοὺς ἀσεβεῖς, τὰς δὲ τιμωρίας ἀμφοτέρων τίς γνώσεται; (22a) λόγον φυλασσόμενος υἱὸς ἀπωλείας ἐκτὸς ἔσται, δεχόμενος δὲ ἐδέξατο αὐτόν. (22b) μηδὲν ψεῦδος ἀπὸ γλώσσης βασιλεῖ λεγέσθω, καὶ οὐδὲν ψεῦδος αὐτοῦ ἀπὸ γλώσσης μὴ ἐξέλθῃ. (22c) μάχαιρα γλῶσσα βασιλέως καὶ οὐ σαρκίνη· ὃς δ᾽ ἂν παραδοθῇ, συντριβήσεται. (22d) ἐὰν γὰρ ὀξυνθῇ ὁ θυμὸς αὐτοῦ, σὺν νεύροις ἀνθρώπους ἀναλίσκει, (22e) καὶ ὀστᾶ ἀνθρώπων κατατρώγει, καὶ συνκαίει ὥσπερ φλόξ, ⸂⸆⸃ ὥστε ἄβρωτα εἶναι νεοσσοῖς ἀετῶν.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- כִּֽי פִ֭תְאֹם יָק֣וּם אֵידָ֑ם וּפִ֥יד שְׁ֝נֵיהֶ֗ם מִ֣י יוֹדֵֽעַ
The Fathers on this verse
St Jerome The Letters of St. Jerome, To Nepotian
14. Beware also of a blabbing tongue and of itching ears. Neither detract from others nor listen to detractors. “Thou sittest,” says the psalmist, “and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother’s son. These things hast thou done and I kept silence; thou thoughtest wickedly that I was such an one as thyself, but I will reprove thee and set them in order before thine eyes.” Keep your tongue from cavilling and watch over your words. Know that in judging others you are passing sentence on yourself and that you are yourself guilty of the faults which you blame in them. It is no excuse to say: “if others tell me things I cannot be rude to them.” No one cares to speak to an unwilling listener. An arrow never lodges in a stone: often it recoils upon the shooter of it. Let the detractor learn from your unwillingness to listen not to be so ready to detract. …
St Jerome The Letters of St. Jerome, To Rusticus
19. Men such as these you must never look at or associate with. Nor must you turn aside your heart unto words of evil lest the psalmist say to you: “Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother’s son,” and lest you become as “the sons of men whose teeth are spears and arrows,” and as the man whose “words were softer than oil yet were they drawn swords.” The Preacher expresses this more clearly still when he says: “Surely the serpent will bite where there is no enchantment, and the slan derer is no better.” But you will say, ‘I am not given to detraction, but how can I check others who are?’ If we put forward such a plea as this it can only be that we may “practise wicked works with men that work iniquity.” Yet Christ is not deceived by this device. …