Wisdom 3:12
Their wives are foolish, and their children wicked.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Mulieres eorum insensatæ sunt, et nequissimi filii eorum.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- αἱ γυναῖκες αὐτῶν ἄφρονες, καὶ πονηρὰ τὰ τέκνα αὐτῶν, ἐπικατάρατος ἡ γένεσις αὐτῶν.
Haydock's commentary
Foolish. Dissolute, as the sequel shews, Proverbs ix. 13., and Romans i. 26. The family of the wicked imitate his conduct, and become his torment. (Calmet)
This is often the case. In the moral sense, the sensuality and works of the impious are corrupt. (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.