Wisdom 15:12
Yea and they have counted our life a pastime, and the business of life to be gain, and that we must be getting every way, even out of evil.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Sed et æstimaverunt ludum esse vitam nostram, et conversationem vitæ compositam ad lucrum, et oportere undecumque etiam ex malo acquirere.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἀλλ᾽ ἐλογίσατο παίγνιον εἶναι τὴν ζωὴν ἡμῶν καὶ τὸν βίον πανηγυρισμὸν ἐπικερδῆ, δεῖν γάρ φησιν ὅθεν δὴ κἂν ἐκ κακοῦ πορίζειν.
Haydock's commentary
Evil. This is the maxim of worldlings. (Calmet)
Virtus post nummos. (Horace, i. ep. 1.)
Our occupations are like those of children. They presently perish, or we must quit them. (St. Chrysostom, hom. xlvii. ad Pop.)
We must strive to act our part well. Libertines deem this life a comedy, and represent religion as an imposition. (Calmet)
They are like atheists, as they leave the true God, who seek gain by idols. (Worthington)
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.