Translations
Louis Segond 1910
Le méchant convoite ce que prennent les méchants, Mais la racine des justes donne du fruit.
KJV
The wicked desireth the net of evil [men]: but the root of the righteous yieldeth [fruit].
The wicked desireth the net of evil [men]: but the root of the righteous yieldeth [fruit].
KJV
Hebrew original
חָמַ֣ד רָ֭שָׁע מְצ֣וֹד רָעִ֑ים וְ/שֹׁ֖רֶשׁ צַדִּיקִ֣ים יִתֵּֽן
Pericope
Patristic reading
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Patrologia Latina Vol. 120 (Migne)
cum afflictione animi sustinet patienter. Hinc quoque legitur: Spes quae differtur affligit animam (Prov. XII., 12) ; non quod passibus virtutum ad ea quae inhiat non pergat secura, sed quia ardentius mens aestuat, dum et ea per fidem inspicit quae jam in spe percepit, licet in r…
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