Psalms 106:27
They were troubled, and reeled like a drunken man; and all their wisdom was swallowed up.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Turbati sunt, et moti sunt sicut ebrius, et omnis sapientia eorum devorata est.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἐταράχθησαν, ἐσαλεύθησαν ὡς ὁ μεθύων, καὶ πᾶσα ἡ σοφία αὐτῶν κατεπόθη.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 107:27
- יָח֣וֹגּוּ וְ֭יָנוּעוּ כַּשִּׁכּ֑וֹר וְכָל חָ֝כְמָתָ֗ם תִּתְבַּלָּֽע
Haydock's commentary
Up. They knew not how to proceed. Ambiguis ars stupet ipsa malis. (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 Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm CVII
7. …“They who go down on the sea in ships, doing their business on the mighty waters” ( ver. 23 ); that is, amongst many peoples. For that waters are often put for peoples, the Apocalypse of John is witness, when on John’s asking what those waters were, it was answered him, they are peoples. They then who do their business on mighty waters, “they have seen the works of the Lord, and His wonders in the deep” ( ver. 24 ). For what is deeper than human hearts? hence often break forth winds; storms of sedition, and dissensions, disturb the ship. And what is done in them? God, willing that both they who steer, and they who are conveyed, should cry unto Him, “He spake, and the breath of the storm stood” ( ver. 25 ). What is, stood? Abode, continued, still disturbeth, long tosseth; rageth, and passeth not away. …
St John Chrysostom Homilies on First Corinthians, Homily XLIV
But if thou sayest, “What? hath he no understanding?” thou shalt hear from me that he hath not: drunken as he is with his passion. For if in the heathen courts of justice, those who are injured must not speak for themselves while glowing with wrath; (although there be no fault in that kind of sympathy;) how much more those whom evil habit holds in subjection. Wherefore I say that manifold as his wisdom may be, he hath not his mind awake. For what can be wiser than David, the man who said, “The dark and the hidden things of Thy wisdom Thou hast made known unto me?” ( Ps. li. 6 . ap. LXX. l. 6.) But when he looked on the wife of the soldier with unjust eyes, then according to what he himself said ( Ps. cvii. 27 .) of those who sail on the raging sea, “all his wisdom was swallowed up;” and he stood in need of others to correct him, and did not even perceive amidst what evils he was. …