If the iron be blunt, and he do not whet the edge, then must he put to more strength: but wisdom [is] profitable to direct.
KJV
Hebrew original
Louis Segond 1910
S'il a émoussé le fer, et s'il n'en a pas aiguisé le tranchant, il devra redoubler de force; mais la sagesse a l'avantage du succès.
KJV
If the iron be blunt, and he do not whet the edge, then must he put to more strength: but wisdom [is] profitable to direct.
Various
Patrologia Latina Vol. 156 (Migne)
sunt opes, uti ingenia, teste Salomone: «Ferrum, inquit, cum retusum fuerit, multo labore exacuetur (Eccl. X, 10) .» Quod totum et ipsum etiam ex facili assertione cassatur, quia nisi rationem lux, quae illuminat omnem hominem in hunc mundum venientem (Joan. I, 9) imbuat, et fore…
Various
Patrologia Latina Vol. 184 (Migne)
ctum ex eis (Eccl. V, 9) . Nihil est pejus quam amare pecunias; hinc enim animam suam venalem habet (Eccl. X, 10) . Sicut avaritia mergit hominem in infernum, ita omnino largitas eleemosynae levat ad coelum. Avarus homo similis est inferno, sicut infernus nunquam dicit, Satis est…
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