Psalms 118:119
I have accounted all the sinners of the earth prevaricators: therefore have I loved thy testimonies.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Prævaricantes reputavi omnes peccatores terræ ; ideo dilexi testimonia tua.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- παραβαίνοντας ἐλογισάμην πάντας τοὺς ἁμαρτωλοὺς τῆς γῆς, διὰ τοῦτο ἠγάπησα τὰ μαρτύριά σου διὰ παντός.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 119:119
- סִגִ֗ים הִשְׁבַּ֥תָּ כָל רִשְׁעֵי אָ֑רֶץ לָ֝כֵ֗ן אָהַ֥בְתִּי עֵדֹתֶֽיךָ
Haydock's commentary
Prevaricators. For though they be not acquainted with revelation, (Haydock) they have the natural law written in their hearts by God, Romans ii. 12. (St. Augustine)
There is no such thing as the philosophic sin, (Berthier) which abstracts from every offence of the Deity, though it be allowed to be contrary to reason. (Haydock)
Septuagint seem to have read differently essbothi, "I have," &c., instead of hishbatta, "thou hast destroyed." Sigim, scorias, may have been sugim in their copies, though both may be derived from sug, "he departed." (Berthier)
"Thou hast accounted as dross, or froth," &c. (St. Jerome)
Calmet says, that St. Jerome and Hebrew read in the first person, which is inaccurate. (Berthier)
The just entertain the same sentiments of the wicked as God does. (Worthington)
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, Samech
117. The next words in the Psalm are, “I have counted,” or “thought,” or “esteemed, all the ungodly of the earth as transgressors” ( ver. 119 ). In the Latin version many different renderings are given of the Greek ἐλογισ€μην; but this passage hath a deep meaning. For the following words, “Therefore have I ever loved Thy testimonies:” make it far more profound. For the Apostle saith, “The law worketh wrath;” and, explaining these words, he addeth, “For where no law is, there is no transgression:” thereby showing that not all are transgressors. For all have not the law. …