Wisdom 17:12
And while there is less expectation from within, the greater doth it count the ignorance of that cause which bringeth the torment.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Et dum ab intus minor est exspectatio, majorem computat inscientiam ejus causæ, de qua tormentum præstat.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἔνδοθεν δὲ οὖσα ἥττων ἡ προσδοκία πλείονα λογίζεται τὴν ἄγνοιαν τῆς παρεχούσης τὴν βάσανον αἰτίας.
Haydock's commentary
Expectation. Or fear. Such an one is filled with a mortal anxiety.
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.