Proverbs 6:12
A man that is an apostate, an unprofitable man, walketh with a perverse mouth,
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Homo apostata, vir inutilis, graditur ore perverso ;
- Septuagint (Swete)
- Ἀνὴρ ἄφρων καὶ παράνομος πορεύεται ὁδοὺς οὐκ ἀγαθάς·
- Hebrew (WLC)
- אָדָ֣ם בְּ֭לִיַּעַל אִ֣ישׁ אָ֑וֶן ה֝וֹלֵ֗ךְ עִקְּשׁ֥וּת פֶּֽה
Haydock's commentary
Apostate. Hebrew, "of Belial,["] without restraint of religion and law. (Calmet)
Deuteronomy xiii. 13. (Menochius)
Every one who sins through malice and particularly heretics, employ all their members to pervert others. (Worthington)
Mouth. No reliance can be had on his promises. (Calmet)
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 Gregory the Great The Book of Pastoral Rule, How sowers of strifes and peacemakers are to be admonished
( Admonition 24.) Differently to be admonished are sowers of strifes and peacemakers. For sowers of strifes are to be admonished to perceive whose followers they are. For of the apostate angel it is written, when tares had been sown among the good crop, An enemy hath done this ( Matth. xiii. 28 ). Of a member of him also it is said through Solomon, An apostate person, an unprofitable man, walketh with a perverse mouth, he winketh with his eyes, he beateth with his foot, he speaketh with his finger, with froward heart he deviseth mischief continually, he soweth strifes ( Prov. vi. 12-14 ). Lo, him whom he would speak of as a sower of strifes he first named an apostate; since, unless after the manner of the proud angel he first fell away inwardly by the alienation of his mind from the face of his Maker, he would not afterwards come to sow strifes outwardly. …