“Qui operatur terram suam satiabitur panibus ; qui autem sectatur otium stultissimus est. Qui suavis est in vini demorationibus, in suis munitionibus relinquit contumeliam.”
“He that tilleth his land shall be satisfied with bread: but he that followeth vain persons is void of understanding.”
“The one who works his land will have plenty of food, but whoever chases fantasies lacks judgment.”
“He who tills his land shall have plenty of bread, but he who chases fantasies is void of understanding.”
“He that tilleth his land shall have plenty of bread; But he that followeth after vain persons is void of understanding.”
Idleness. Hebrew, “the idle.” Their company is seducing. — He that, &c. This occurs in the Septuagint, but not in the Hebrew or the new edition of St. Jerome. (Calmet) — Wine. Or “in taverns.” — Holds. Soldiers have thus been often surprised. (Menochius) — “Drunkenness is an incitement to lust and madness, the poison of wisdom.” (St. Ambrose)
6 The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood: but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.
“In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread till thou return to the earth out of which thou wast taken: for dust thou art, and into dust thou shalt return.”