Ecclesiastes 14:22

Nova Vulgata

Nonne errant, qui operantur malum? Misericordia et veritas iis, qui praeparant bona.

Parallel Translations

Clementine Latin Vulgate (1592)
Errant qui operantur malum ; misericordia et veritas præparant bona.

Jerome's Latin Vulgate (405)
Errant qui operantur malum;
misericordia et veritas præparant bona.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

err: Proverbs 14:17, Proverbs 12:2, Isaiah 32:7, Isaiah 32:8

but: Genesis 24:27, Psalms 25:10, Psalms 61:7, Matthew 5:7, John 1:17

devise: Proverbs 19:22, 2 Chronicles 6:8

Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 2:6 - the Lord 2 Samuel 15:20 - mercy Proverbs 24:8 - General

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Do they not err that devise evil?.... Certainly they do; they go astray from the right way, from the word of truth, from the Gospel of Christ, who contrive schemes to commit sin, and do mischief to their neighbours; or who "plough" t it, and sow it, and expect a fine harvest; but they will be mistaken, and find it will not turn to account, and that they have took a wrong course, and have gone out of the way: none more mischievous devisers or contrivers of evil than the Papists, and none more sadly and fatally err;

but mercy and truth [shall be] to them that devise good; who devise liberal things, to do good to the poor and needy; to their neighbours, their fellow creatures and fellow Christians: such receive grace and "mercy" at the hands of God, and his "truth" will appear in making good all promises to them; mercy and truth will preserve them from the evil way, and guide them in the right way, so that they shall not err as others do; neither from the doctrines of grace and truth, nor from the practice of them.

t חרש "arant", Baynus; "arantibus", Amama; "verbum proprie significat arare", Piscator.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Err - In the sense of wandering from the right way, the way of life.