For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of mine head: therefore my heart faileth me.
KJV
Hebrew original
Louis Segond 1910
Car des maux sans nombre m'environnent; Les châtiments de mes iniquités m'atteignent, Et je ne puis en supporter la vue; Ils sont plus nombreux que les cheveux de ma tête, Et mon courage m'abandonne.
KJV
For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of mine head: therefore my heart faileth me.
Rufinus Aquileiensis
Commentarius In Symbolum Apostolorum
COMMENTARIUS a IN SYMBOLUM APOSTOLORUM AUCTORE TYRANNIO b RUFINO AQUILEIENSI PRESBYTERO· 51. 1. Mihi quidem, tideli-sime Papa c Laurenti, ad scribendum animus tam non esi cupidus, quam nec idoneus, scienti non esse absque periculo, multo- rum judiciis ingenium tenue et exile comm…
Clemens Romanus (Clement of Rome)
Epistula I ad Corinthios
Ἡ ἐκκλησία τοῦ θεοῦ ἡ παροικοῦσα Ῥώμην τῆ ἐκκλησίᾳ τοῦ θεοῦ τῇ παροικούσῃ Κόρινθον, κλητοῖς ἡγιασμένοις ἐν θελήματι θεοῦ διὰ τοῦ κυρίου ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ. χάρις ὑμῖν καὶ εἰρήνη ἀπὸ παντοκράτορος θεοῦ διὰ Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ πληθυνθείη. Διὰ τὰς αἰφνιδίους καὶ ἐπαλλήλους γενομένας ἡμῖν…
Oracula Sibyllina
Oracula
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