Translations
Louis Segond 1910
Au malheur le mépris! c'est la devise des heureux; A celui dont le pied chancelle est réservé le mépris.
KJV
He that is ready to slip with [his] feet [is as] a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease.
He that is ready to slip with [his] feet [is as] a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease.
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Patrologia Latina Vol. 112 (Migne)
cis veros fideles. Lampas est quilibet simplex, ut in Job: «Lampas contempta [Note: [Col. 0981] 9 Job. XII, 5.] ,» apud cogitationes divitum: quod simplex quilibet desperatus est in conspectu superborum. Lampas, examen judicii, ut in Genesi: «Lampas ignis transiens inter d…
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