Psalms 25:10
In whose hands are iniquities: their right hand is filled with gifts.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- in quorum manibus iniquitates sunt ; dextera eorum repleta est muneribus.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ὧν ἐν χερσὶν ἀνομίαι, ἡ δεξιὰ αὐτῶν ἐπλήσθη δώρων.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 26:10
- אֲשֶׁר בִּידֵיהֶ֥ם זִמָּ֑ה וִֽ֝ימִינָ֗ם מָ֣לְאָה שֹּֽׁחַד
Haydock's commentary
Gifts, to bribe; or rather, which the judges have received. (Berthier) Shochad is always used in a bad sense for "a bribe." (Calmet)
Est munus a lingua....a manu....et ab obsequio. (St. Jerome)
The wicked use their worldly goods to corrupt others. (Worthington)
Jugurtha leaving Rome, said, "O venal city." (Sallust)
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 XXVI
10. “In whose hands is wickedness.” Destroy me not then with the ungodly and the men of blood, whose works are wicked. “Their right hand is full of gifts” ( ver. 10 ). And that which was given them to obtain eternal salvation, they have converted into the receiving this world’s gifts, “supposing that godliness is a trade.”