Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin; neither say thou before the angel, that it [was] an error: wherefore should God be angry at thy voice, and destroy the work of thine hands?
KJV
Hebrew original
Louis Segond 1910
Ne permets pas à ta bouche de faire pécher ta chair, et ne dis pas en présence de l'envoyé que c'est une inadvertance. Pourquoi Dieu s'irriterait-il de tes paroles, et détruirait-il l'ouvrage de tes mains?
KJV
Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin; neither say thou before the angel, that it [was] an error: wherefore should God be angry at thy voice, and destroy the work of thine hands?
Fulgentius of Ruspe
On the Remission of Sins Book One
say, 'God's mercy is great,' for mercy and wrath come from Him, and His wrath will fall on sinners" (Eccl. 5:5-7). Also, holy Job said: "Won't there be destruction for the wicked, and alienation for those who do evil?" (Job 31:3). In Proverbs, it is written: "The wicked are trapp…
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