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Proverbs 1:19Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers

So the ways of every covetous man destroy the souls of the possessors.

Douay-Rheims

כֵּ֗ן אָ֭רְחוֹת כָּל־בֹּ֣צֵֽעַ בָּ֑צַע אֶת־נֶ֖פֶשׁ בְּעָלָ֣יו יִקָּֽח׃

Hebrew (Masoretic text)

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Vissarion (Nechaev)

19th centuryCommentator

Consequently, the killers will face no mercy. The ways of unrighteousness will guide them toward ruin. In taking the lives of others, the wicked ultimately bring about the loss of their own souls—they bring upon themselves the sentence of death.

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