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They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head: they that would destroy me, [being] mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored [that] which I took not away.

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Hebrew original

Translations

Louis Segond 1910

Ils sont plus nombreux que les cheveux de ma tête, Ceux qui me haïssent sans cause; Ils sont puissants, ceux qui veulent me perdre, Qui sont à tort mes ennemis. Ce que je n'ai pas dérobé, il faut que je le restitue.

KJV

They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head: they that would destroy me, [being] mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored [that] which I took not away.

Patristic reading

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  • Thomas Aquinas

    Summa Theologica

    Jerome says (Ep. ad Celant): "Nothing so easily corrupts the human mind as flattery": and a gloss on Ps. 69:4, "Let them be presently turned away blushing for shame that say to me: 'Tis well, 'Tis well," says: "The tongue of the flatterer harms more than the sword of the persecut…
  • Various

    Patrologia Latina Vol. 136 (Migne)

    ntra illos auxilium Domini imprecando: Avertantur statim erubescentes, qui dicunt mihi: Euge, euge (Psal. LXIX, 4) . 26. Abstinere vero tanto magis nos oportet ab omni mendacio, quanto certius illud a diabolo procedere valemus advertere, Domino ita de eo testante: Cum loquitu…
  • Various

    Patrologia Latina Vol. 182 (Migne)

    ) . Et ego: Avertantur ergo, iuquam, statim erubescentes, [Col. 0186B] qui dicunt mihi, Euge, euge (Psal. LXIX, 4) . Quod tamen ne putetur in quoscunque adversarios a me quandoque intorta maledictio vel imprecatio, exponere debeo qualiter intelligam. Precor nimirum ut quicunque…

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