The best of them is like a brier: the most upright is sharper than a thorn hedge: the day of your watchmen and your punishment comes; now shall be their perplexity.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Brier. Hebrew chedek, or "thorn. "Septuagint, "a consuming moth. "
Inspection, or of thy chiefs (Haydock) and prophets. (Calmet)