OLD TESTAMENT

Proverbs 23:29

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29

Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has strife? Who has complaints? Who has needless bruises? Who has bloodshot eyes?

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Verse 29. Whose father. S. Jerom has read ab avi, instead of abo, ( Calmet.) which is an interjection, (Boch.) alas! or it means, “trouble.” Septuagint “drunkenness,” (Chal. Calmet.) or “sorrow.” Prot.—Falls. Septuagint “hath sorrows.” Hebrew “babbling,” (Prot. Bible.) or discontents of mind. Calmet.—Cause. Drunkards often fall upon their best friends, as Alexander did on Clytus. Menochius.

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