Wisdom 11:16
But for the foolish devices of their iniquity, because some being deceived worshipped dumb serpents and worthless beasts, thou didst send upon them a multitude of dumb beasts for vengeance.
Challoner: Dumb beastsViz., frogs, sciniphs, flies, and locusts.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Pro cogitationibus autem insensatis iniquitatis illorum, quod quidam errantes colebant mutos serpentes et bestias supervacuas, immisisti illis multitudinem mutorum animalium in vindictam ;
- Septuagint (Swete) shown from Wisdom 11:15
- ἀντὶ δὲ λογισμῶν ἀσυνέτων ἀδικίας αὐτῶν, ἐν οἷς πλανηθέντες ἐθρήσκευον ἄλογα ἑρπετὰ καὶ κνώδαλα εὐτελῆ, ἐπαπέστειλας αὐτοῖς πλῆθος ἀλόγων ζῴων εἰς ἐκδίκησιν,
Haydock's commentary
Serpents. The Egyptians adored asps, and fed them at their tables, without receiving any harm. (Ælian. Hist. xvii. 5.)
Dumb beasts. Viz., frogs, sciniphs, flies, and locusts. (Challoner)
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.