A man, having separated himself, seeks his own desire, and rages against all sound wisdom.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Reproach. True friendship resembles charity, and bears all things, 1 Corinthians xiii. 4. Hebrew now reads Thave, "desire "instead of Thuane, occasion, or "pretext "which must have been in the copies of the Septuagint and Vulgate. (Calmet)
Protestants, "through desire, a man having separated himself, seeketh and intermeddleth with all wisdom. "The solitary seeks heaven. (Haydock)