Psalms 36:30
The mouth of the just shall meditate wisdom: and his tongue shall speak judgment.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Os justi meditabitur sapientiam, et lingua ejus loquetur judicium.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- στόμα δικαίου μελετήσει σοφίαν, καὶ ἡ γλῶσσα αὐτοῦ λαλήσει κρίσιν·
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 37:30
- פִּֽי צַ֭דִּיק יֶהְגֶּ֣ה חָכְמָ֑ה וּ֝לְשׁוֹנ֗וֹ תְּדַבֵּ֥ר מִשְׁפָּֽט
The Fathers on this verse
Origen Origen Against Celsus, Chapter XLIX
What I have now said, then, is offered not for the purpose of cavilling with any right opinions or sound doctrines held even by Greeks, but with the desire of showing that the same things, and indeed much better and diviner things than these, have been said by those divine men, the prophets of God and the apostles of Jesus. These truths are fully investigated by all who wish to attain a perfect knowledge of Christianity, and who know that “the mouth of the righteous speaketh wisdom, and his tongue talketh of judgment; the law of his God is in his heart.” But even in regard to those who, either from deficiency or knowledge or want of inclination, or from not having Jesus to lead them to a rational view of religion, have not gone into these deep questions, we find that they believe in the Most High God, and in His Only-begotten Son, the Word and God, and that they often exhibit in their ch …
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Part 3
11. “The mouth of the righteous speaketh wisdom” ( ver. 30 ). See here is that “bread.” Observe with what satisfaction this righteous man feedeth upon it; how he turns wisdom over and over in his mouth. “And his tongue talketh of judgment.”