Wisdom 17:10
For whereas wickedness is fearful, it beareth witness of its condemnation: for a troubled conscience always forecasteth grievous things.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Cum sit enim timida nequitia, dat testimonium condemnationis : semper enim præsumit sæva, perturbata conscientia :
- Septuagint (Swete)
- δειλὸν γὰρ ἰδίως πονηρία μαρτυρεῖ καταδικ ἀεὶ δὲ προσείληφεν τὰ χαλεπὰ συνεχομένη τῇ συνειδήσει.
Haydock's commentary
Things. The wicked are most cowardly. (Calmet)
"Crimes may be safe; they cannot be secure." (Seneca, ep. xcvii.)
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.