Translations
Louis Segond 1910
Un roi affermit le pays par la justice, Mais celui qui reçoit des présents le ruine.
KJV
The king by judgment establisheth the land: but he that receiveth gifts overthroweth it.
The king by judgment establisheth the land: but he that receiveth gifts overthroweth it.
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Patrologia Latina Vol. 102 (Migne)
enitur sententia. Ait enim Salomon in Proverbiis: Rex justus erigit terram: vir avarus destruet eam (Prov. XXIX, 4) . Item ipse: Conturbat domum suam qui sectatur avaritiam: qui autem odit munera, vivet (Prov. XV, 27) . Dominus in Evangelio discipulis ait: Cavete ab omni avariti…
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Patrologia Latina Vol. 106 (Migne)
sensati stabilis erit (Eccli. X, 1) . Item: Rex justus erigit terram, et vir avarus destruit eam (Prov. XXIX, 4) . In libro Sapientiae: Diligite justitiam qui judicatis terram. Sentite de Domino in bonitate, et in simplicitate cordis quaerite illum (Sap. I, 1) . Item ibi: Audi…
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