Proverbs 8:34
Blessed is the man that heareth me, and that watcheth daily at my gates, and waiteth at the posts of my doors.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Beatus homo qui audit me, et qui vigilat ad fores meas quotidie, et observat ad postes ostii mei.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- μακάριος ἀνὴρ ὃς εἰσακούσεταί μου, καὶ ἄνθρωπος ὃς τὰς ἐμὰς ὁδοὺς φυλάξει, ἀγρυπνῶν ἐπ᾽ ἐμαῖς θύραις καθ᾽ ἡμέραν, τηρῶν σταθμοὺς ἐμῶν εἰσόδων.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- אַ֥שְֽׁרֵי אָדָם֮ שֹׁמֵ֪עַֽ֫ לִ֥י לִשְׁקֹ֣ד עַל דַּ֭לְתֹתַי י֤וֹם י֑וֹם לִ֝שְׁמֹ֗ר מְזוּזֹ֥ת פְּתָחָֽי
The Fathers on this verse
Clement of Alexandria The Instructor, Chap. IX. On Sleep
But he who has the light watches, “and darkness seizes not on him,” nor sleep, since darkness does not. He that is illuminated is therefore awake towards God; and such an one lives. “For what was made in Him was life.” “Blessed is the man,” says Wisdom, “who shall hear me, and the man who shall keep my ways, watching at my doors, daily observing the posts of my entrances.” “Let us not then sleep, as do others, but let us watch,” says the Scripture, “and be sober. For they that sleep, sleep in the night; and they that be drunken, are drunken in the night,” that is, in the darkness of ignorance. “But let us who are of the day be sober. …