Wisdom 1:10
For the ear of jealousy heareth all things, and the tumult of murmuring shall not be hid.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Quoniam auris zeli audit omnia, et tumultus murmurationum non abscondetur.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ὅτι οὖς ζηλώσεως ἀκροᾶται τὰ πάντα, καὶ θροῦς γογγυσμῶν οὐκ ἀποκρύπτεται.
Haydock's commentary
Jealousy. God is strong and jealous, Exodus xx. (Calmet)
He examines the smallest deviation from the paths of rectitude. (Haydock)
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 On Lying, Section 31
31. Thus then what is written, “The mouth that lieth, slayeth the soul;” of what mouth it speaketh, is the question. For in general when the Scripture speaks of the mouth, it signifies the very seat of our conception in the heart, where is approved and decreed whatever also by the voice, when we speak the truth, is uttered: so that he lieth with the heart who approveth a lie; yet that man may possibly not lie with the heart, who uttereth other than is in his mind, in such sort that he knows it to be for the sake of avoiding a greater evil that he admitteth an evil, disapproving withal both the one and the other. …