Wisdom 10:4
For whose cause, when water destroyed the earth, wisdom healed it again, directing the course of the just by contemptible wood.
Challoner: For whose causeViz., for the wickedness of the race of Cain.-- Ibid. The just ... Noe.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Propter quem cum aqua deleret terram, sanavit iterum sapientia, per contemptibile lignum justum gubernans.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- δι᾽ ὃν κατακλυζομένην γῆν πάλιν διέσωσεν σοφία, δι᾽ εὐτελοῦς ξύλου τὸν δίκαιον κυβερνήσασα.
Haydock's commentary
Cause. The wickedness of the race of Cain. (Calmet)
Just. Noe[Noah].
Wood. Who would have thought that such a vessel would save mankind, &c., amid the raging storms? Noe must have been an able mechanic: (Calmet) but God both directed him, and closed up the door, Genesis vii. 16. (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.