Proverbs 3:35
The wise shall possess glory: the promotion of fools is disgrace.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Gloriam sapientes possidebunt ; stultorum exaltatio ignominia.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- δόξαν σοφοὶ κληρονομήσουσιν, οἱ δὲ ἀσεβεῖς ὕψωσαν ἀτιμίαν.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- כָּ֭בוֹד חֲכָמִ֣ים יִנְחָ֑לוּ וּ֝כְסִילִ֗ים מֵרִ֥ים קָלֽוֹן
Haydock's commentary
Disgrace. They are seen by more, and their fall is more dangerous. (Calmet)
"A fool extols what is ignominious." (Pagnin) (Haydock)
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 Hippolytus On Proverbs, Section I
They will not simply obtain, but inherit. The wicked, again, even though they are exalted, are exalted only so as to have greater dishonour. For as one does not honour an ugly and misshapen fellow, if he exalts him, but only dishonours him the more, by making his shame manifest to a larger number; so also God exalts the wicked, in order that He may make their disgrace patent. For Pharaoh was exalted, but only to have the world as his accuser.