Onmachtich is de macht des werelts t'saem vergaert,
Om quetsen dat de goe en stercke Godt bewaert.
De gifte pijl die ghij gaet op d'onnosel micken
keert Godt tot v: en breeckt v quaet voornemen sticken
Hier van een spiegel is t'vereende neederlant
Bestormt met groot ghewelt: door Goodts vermogen hant
bleef staende tegens hoop. O Godt v is de Eer
Ghy hoedt d'ootmoedighe. de stoute smyt ghij neer.

Ce Philisthin s'est par orgueil armé,
Et veut tirer contre simple Innocence:
Mais Dieu a fait son traict enuenimé
Tourner sur luy, brisant son arrogance.
O beau miroir aux yeux de nostre France!
Pour contempler du grand Dieu des hauts cieux
Le prompt secours, la iustice & puissance,
Qui garde l'humble, & abat l'orgueilleux.

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A MALO CASTIGABERIS

xxvj.
Immiti innocuum sperabas sternere letho:
Sed tibi iusta tua est pœna parata manu.
Nam te reflexo confixum deijcit ictu,
Dum fugit immeritum stricta sagitta caput.

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...

You will be held back from evil.

You were hoping to brings down the innocent by nasty death.
But due punishment lies in store for you, by your own doing.
For as its course turns back on you, it pierces you and strikes you down,
The drawn arrow, while it misses the undeserving head.

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Literature

Mentioned in: Henkel and Schöne, Emblemata, col. 1509f

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An archer shoots at a naked toddler who raises his hand; the arrow pierces the archer's own forehead

low hill country [25H114]
public road [25I14]
parts of the face (with NAME) [31A22111(FOREHEAD)]
arm raised upward [31A2511]
infections and wounds [31A4632]
toddler (male) (+ nude human being) [31D11211(+89)]
violent death by arrow(s) (+ seeking death, suicide) [31E23461(+7)]
the soldier; the soldier's life (+ infantry) [45B(+21)(ARCHER)]
archer's weapons (with NAME) [45C15(CROSSBOW)]
putting out of action by killing (+ variant) [45H53(+0)]
contrast between important and unimportant people; the inferior before the superior, the weak before the mighty (+ variant) [46A23(+0)]
inscription [49L8]
Punishing Badness (+ emblematical representation of concept) [57BB131(+4)]
proverbs, sayings, etc. (with TEXT) [86(A MALO CASTIGABERIS)]

A malo castigaberis [26]

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