OLD TESTAMENT

Psalms 49:10

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For he sees that wise men die; likewise the fool and the senseless perish, and leave their wealth to others.

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Verse 10. Oxen. Saint Jerome and Prot. “the cattle upon a thousand hills.” But our version is very good, and adopted by the Syr. Ferrand, and so forth Calmet.—Aleph means an ox as well as a thousand; and i may have been added to the preceding word, instead of u, at the beginning of this. Bert.—We find u here improperly in either, “beast.” Houbig.—No mention is made of fishes, because they were not used as victims. Calmet.

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