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Who [is] the wise man, that may understand this? and [who is he] to whom the mouth of the LORD hath spoken, that he may declare it, for what the land perisheth [and] is burned up like a wilderness, that none passeth through?

KJV

Hebrew original

Translations

Louis Segond 1910

Où est l'homme sage qui comprenne ces choses? Qu'il le dise, celui à qui la bouche de l'Eternel a parlé! Pourquoi le pays est-il détruit, Brûlé comme un désert où personne ne passe?

KJV

Who [is] the wise man, that may understand this? and [who is he] to whom the mouth of the LORD hath spoken, that he may declare it, for what the land perisheth [and] is burned up like a wilderness, that none passeth through?

Patristic reading

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    Patrologia Latina Vol. 178 (Migne)

    ibus corporis ad vanitatem aliquam abutendo. Sicut scriptum est: «Mors intrat per fenestras nostras (Jer. IX, 12) , hoc est peccatum ad animam per quinque sensuum instrumenta. Quae vero mors gravior, aut custodia periculosior, quam animarum? Nolite, «inquit Veritas, timere [Col.…

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