Behold, God is mighty, and despises no one: he is mighty in strength and wisdom.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
God. Septuagint, "Know that the Lord will not cast away the innocent. "Theodotion continues to ver. 12: "The mighty, in strength of heart, (Wisdom vi.) will not make the impious live, and will render judgment to the poor. "(Haydock)
They seem to have read Thom, which is now wanting in Hebrew. (Calmet)
"Behold God is mighty, and despiseth not any: mighty in strength and wisdom. "(Protestants) (Haydock)
Eliu begins to prove that God administers justice to all equally. (Calmet)
44. Some things in the course of this mortal life are hurtful in themselves, some are such from circumstances. Some are hurtful of themselves; as sins and wickednesses. But some things are, now and then, hurtful from circumstances, as temporal power, or the bond of wedlock. For marriage is good, but those things which grow up around it, through the care of this world, are evil. Whence Paul says, He that is with a wife, thinketh of the things that are of the world, how he may please his wife. [l Cor. 7, 33] Whence also, recommending to certain persons a better course, he dissuades them from marriage, and says, But this I say, not that I may cast a snare on you, but for that which is comely, and which may give you power to pray to the Lord without impediment. [ib. v. 35] While that then which is not hurtful is retained, something hurtful is commonly committed from attendant circumstances: as frequently we journey along a straight and clear road, and yet we are entangled by our clothes in...
