Proverbs 14:34

Verse 34. Miserable. This sentence ought to be engraven in all public places. Hebrew “and mercy the sinful people,” whom God spares on account of their alms-deeds, (Daniel 4:24) or “sin is the shame of peoples.” Calmet.—Montanus renders chesed mercy, and Pagnin “ignominy.” The former is scarcely intelligible, et misericordia populorum peccatum, unless sin be here taken for a sin-offering, ( Bible.) as it is by Vatab. Grot. and so forth Calmet.