Psalms 118:3
For they that work iniquity, have not walked in his ways.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Non enim qui operantur iniquitatem in viis ejus ambulaverunt.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- οὐ γὰρ οἱ ἐργαζόμενοι τὴν ἀνομίαν ἐν ταῖς ὁδοῖς αὐτοῦ ἐπορεύθησαν.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 119:3
- אַ֭ף לֹֽא פָעֲל֣וּ עַוְלָ֑ה בִּדְרָכָ֥יו הָלָֽכוּ
Haydock's commentary
Ways. They may, however, repent. The just are subject to fall, 1 John i. 8. But venial faults are not incompatible with justice. (Calmet)
Hebrew, "They also do no iniquity: they walk in his ways." (Protestants) (Berthier)
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, Aleph
2. Listen now to what he addeth: “Blessed are they that keep His testimonies, and seek Him with their whole heart” ( ver. 2 ). No other class of the blessed seemeth to me to be mentioned in these words, than that which has been already spoken of. For to examine into the testimonies of the Lord, and to seek Him with all the heart, this is to be undefiled in the way, this is to walk in the law of the Lord. He then goeth on to say, “For they who do wickedness, shall not walk in His ways” ( ver. 3 ). And yet we know that the workers of wickedness do search the testimonies of the Lord for this reason, that they prefer being learned to being righteous: we know that others also search the testimonies of the Lord, not because they are already living well, but that they may know how they ought to live. …
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Aleph
3. It is written, and is read, and is true, in this Psalm, that “They who do wickedness, walk not in His ways” ( ver. 3 ). But we must endeavour, with the help of God, “in” whose “hand are both we and our words,” that what is rightly said, by not being rightly understood, may not confuse the reader or hearer. For we must beware, lest all the Saints, whose words these are, “If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us;” may either not be thought to walk in the ways of the Lord, since sin is wickedness, and “they who do wickedness, walk not in His ways;” or, because it is not doubtful that they walk in the ways of the Lord, may be thought to have no sin, which is beyond doubt false. For it is not said merely for the sake of avoiding arrogance and pride. …