Wisdom 14:31
For it is not the power of them, by whom they swear, but the just vengeance of sinners always punisheth the transgression of the unjust.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Non enim juratorum virtus, sed peccantium pœna, perambulat semper injustorum prævaricationem.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- οὐ γὰρ ἡ τῶν ὀμνυμένων δύναμις, ἀλλ᾽ ἡ τῶν ἁμαρτανόντων δίκη ἐπεξέρχεται ἀεὶ τὴν τῶν ἀδίκων παράβασιν·
Haydock's commentary
Just. Literally, "the punishment of sinners always walketh about," &c. (Haydock)
"The stone does not hear thee speaking, but God punishes the deceiver." (St. Augustine)
The pagans supposed that their idols sometimes punished perjury. (Juvenal, Sat. viii.)
It is God who does it. (Calmet)
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.