Psalms 37:12

Verse 12. Have. Hebrew “over-against my wound ( Bible.) or leprosy.” Calmet. Prot. “stand aloof from my sore.” Bible.—But the original means rather “near to.” Septuagint may have read u for i, in nighi. Bert.—But Sym. and S. Jerom translate, “stood against my leprosy, ( Bible.) and my neighbour stood at a distance;” as if they had been afraid of the contagion. Job (19:13. 19) makes the same complaints. Calmet.—These manners of worldlings may be seen in every age, and ought not to fill us with surprise. Bert. John 15:18.—David was abandoned by Achitophel, and by most of the tribe of Juda, (Theod.) as our Saviour was by his disciples. Saint Augustine