Translations
Louis Segond 1910
Telle voie paraît droite à un homme, Mais son issue, c'est la voie de la mort.
KJV
There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof [are] the ways of death.
There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof [are] the ways of death.
KJV
Hebrew original
יֵ֤שׁ דֶּ֣רֶךְ יָ֭שָׁר לִ/פְנֵי אִ֑ישׁ וְ֝/אַחֲרִיתָ֗/הּ דַּרְכֵי מָֽוֶת
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Certain Homilies
omes like the one of whom the divine word declares: "The ways of fools are right in their own eyes" (Proverbs 16:25); and again: "There are ways that seem right to a man, but their end is the way to death" (Proverbs 14:12). Finally, it will happen to such souls as it did to the h…
Various
Patrologia Latina Vol. 126 (Migne)
; et: Sunt viae quae videntur hominibus rectae, quarum finis usque ad profundum inferni demergit (Prov. XVI, 25) . III. De eo quod ibidem subsequitur ex Odacro, in praecedentibus litteris satis vobis respondi. IV. De eo quod mox subsequitur, «Quia meus missus Altramnus mona…
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