Let them be confounded and put to shame that seek after my soul: let them be turned back and brought to confusion that devise my hurt.
KJV
Hebrew original
Louis Segond 1910
Qu'ils soient honteux et confus, ceux qui en veulent à ma vie! Qu'ils reculent et rougissent, ceux qui méditent ma perte!
KJV
Let them be confounded and put to shame that seek after my soul: let them be turned back and brought to confusion that devise my hurt.
Didymus the Blinde
Fragmenta in Psalmos
το ποιουσιν οι σοφιστικως συναγορευοντες τηι αμαρτιαι ως καθηκοντως και μη παρα λογον γινομενηι. 346 Ps 35,4.5 ̔Ετερα εστιν γραφη φασκουσα· Τα ρηματα του στοματος αυτου ανομια και κοπος, τουτεστιν, επαχθη ως κοπον εμποιειν τοις προσεχουσιν. Ουκ εβουληθη συνειναι του αγαθυναι. δηλ…
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
that a man's will is deliberately turned away from the consideration of that principle, according to Ps. 35:4 , "He would not understand, that he might do well": whereas sometimes it is due to the mind being more busy about things which it loves more, so as to be hindered thereby…
Various
Patrologia Latina Vol. 106 (Migne)
igere, ne cogatur quod intellexerit facere. Unde ait Psalmista: Noluit intelligere, ut bene ageret (Psal. XXXV, 4) . Tales vero nisi impraesentiarum se correxerint, quid eis in futurum proveniat si animadvertere curaverint, et in Evangelio et in Apostolo in promptu habent.» Po…
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