Wisdom 2:11
But let our strength be the law of justice: for that which is feeble, is found to be nothing worth.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- sit autem fortitudo nostra lex justitiæ ; quod enim infirmum est, inutile invenitur.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἔστω δὲ ἡμῶν ἡ ἰσχὺς νόμος τῆς δικαιοσύνης, τὸ γὰρ ἀσθενὲς ἄχρηστον ἐλέγχεται.
Haydock's commentary
Worth. Strange maxims! which few will dare to proclaim, though they act according to them. (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.