Wisdom 4:7
But the just man, if he be prevented with death, shall be in rest.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Justus autem si morte præoccupatus fuerit, in refrigerio erit ;
- Septuagint (Swete)
- δίκαιος δὲ ἐὰν φθάσῃ τελευτῆσαι, ἐν ἀναπαύσει ἔσται.
Haydock's commentary
Death. He is always ready; but dies in his youth. (Calmet)
Whenever death comes, it is for his advantage, and if he depart in his youth, his immaculate life is to be preferred before the old age of the wicked, ver. 16. (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.