Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, [which] refuseth to be healed? wilt thou be altogether unto me as a liar, [and as] waters [that] fail?
KJV
Hebrew original
Louis Segond 1910
Pourquoi ma souffrance est-elle continuelle? Pourquoi ma plaie est-elle douloureuse, et ne veut-elle pas se guérir? Serais-tu pour moi comme une source trompeuse, Comme une eau dont on n'est pas sûr?
KJV
Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, [which] refuseth to be healed? wilt thou be altogether unto me as a liar, [and as] waters [that] fail?
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
bruise is incurable, thy wound is very grievous." Now the sin of despair is incurable, according to Jer. 15:18 : "My wound is desperate so as to refuse to be healed." [*Vulg.: 'Why is my wound,' etc.] Therefore despair is a most grievous sin. I answer that, Those sins which are c…
Thomas Aquinas
On Nature and Grace
y bruise is incurable, and thy wound is grievous.” Now the sin of despair is incurable, according to Jer. 15:18 : “. . . my wound incurable, which refuseth to be healed.” It follows that despair is the gravest of sins. I answer: the sins which are opposed to the theological virtu…
Various
Patrologia Latina Vol. 125 (Migne)
ri debent. Dicente itaque Domino: Si separaveris pretiosum a vili, quasi [Col. 0485C] os meum eris (Jer. XV, 18) , verbis ipsius Domini, et catholicorum sententiis, separata proculque displosa est, et adhuc, vel si non potest longius, ipso tamen annuente qui aperit os mutum, et…
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