Wisdom 17:17
For they were all bound together with one chain of darkness. Whether it were a whistling wind, or the melodious voice of birds, among the spreading branches of trees, or a fall of water running down with violence,
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- una enim catena tenebrarum omnes erant colligati. Sive spiritus sibilans, aut inter spissos arborum ramos avium sonus suavis, aut vis aquæ decurrentis nimium,
- Septuagint (Swete)
- εἴ τε πνεῦμα συρίζον, ἡ περὶ ἀμφιλαφεῖς κλάδους ὀρνέων ἦχος εὐμελής, ἢ ῥυθμὸς ὕδατος πορευομένου βία, *ἢ κτύπος ἀπηνὴς καταριπτομένων πετρῶυ,
Haydock's commentary
Birds. Nothing can afford comfort to the affrighted. (Menochius)
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.