Translations
Louis Segond 1910
Ne dis pas: Je rendrai le mal. Espère en l'Eternel, et il te délivrera.
KJV
Say not thou, I will recompense evil; [but] wait on the LORD, and he shall save thee.
Say not thou, I will recompense evil; [but] wait on the LORD, and he shall save thee.
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Patrologia Latina Vol. 102 (Migne)
eddas malum pro malo; sicut scriptum est: Ne dicas: Reddam malum; exspecta Dominum, et liberabit te (Prov. XX, 22) . Ergo et tu ex toto corde in te dimitte peccanti, et exspecta Deum, ut a proprio libereris peccato; et noli vindicari in homine qui in te deliquerit. Quia scriptum…
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Patrologia Latina Vol. 178 (Migne)
, 5) . Et Salomon in Proverbiis: Ne dicas: Reddam malum pro malo: exspecta Dominum, et liberabit te (Prov. XX, 22) . Cum ceciderit inimicus tuus, ne gaudeas, et in ruina ejus ne exsultet cor tuum, ne forte videat Dominus, et displiceat ei, et auferat ab eo iram suam (Prov. XXIV,…
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