You shall be hid from the scourge of the tongue: neither shall you be afraid of destruction when it comes.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Scourge. Ecclesiasticus (xxvi. 9., and xxviii. 21.) has the same expression. See James iii. 6. (Calmet)
Calamity, from robbers, as the Hebrew shod, (Haydock) intimates. The word is rendered destruction, vastitate, ver. 22. (Menochius)