Wisdom 7:8
And I preferred her before kingdoms and thrones, and esteemed riches nothing in comparison of her.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- et præposui illam regnis et sedibus, et divitias nihil esse duxi in comparatione illius.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- προέκρινα αὐτὴν σκήπτρων καὶ θρόνων, καὶ πλοῦτον οὐδὲν ἡγησάμην ἐν συγκρίσει αὐτῆς·
Haydock's commentary
Preferred. I did not ask for extensive dominions, &c. (Calmet)
In Proverbs viii. 10., &c., as well as here, some things refer to the uncreated, and others to created wisdom. (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.