Romans 3:15 (WHOA! Is this weird!)

[The Thadman]

No need to apologise. I agree with your stance. You Peshitta dudes should be critical of your proofs, to avoid any problems.

But as for Septuagint, let them prove to me that the Aramaic-speaking Judeans, quoted from a Greek version of a text they SHOULD be able to read themselves ( duh! duh! duh! <!-- stupid: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/withstupid.gif" alt="tupid:" title="Stupid" /><!-- stupid: --> ), especially when the Judeans mourned over its creation <!-- s8) --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/cool.gif" alt="8)" title="Cool" /><!-- s8) -->

Sometimes liars can make my blood boil <!-- s:onfire: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/onfire.gif" alt=":onfire:" title="On Fire" /><!-- s:onfire: -->

Alllllright :-) Here's what I found:

LXX Isaiah 59:7:
7 ?? ?? ????? ????? ??? ???????? ????????? ??????? ?????? ???? ??? ?? ??????????? ????? ??????????? ??????? ????????? ??? ?????????? ?? ???? ????? ?????
8 ??? ???? ??????? ??? ??????? ??? ??? ????? ?????? ?? ???? ????? ????? ?? ??? ?????? ????? ????????????? ?? ??????????? ??? ??? ??????? ???????
Byzantine Romans 3:15: (No variants are recorded)
15 ????? ?? ????? ????? ?????? ???? 16 ????????? ??? ?????????? ?? ???? ????? ????? 17 ??? ???? ??????? ??? ???????

The underlined sections above are what match up, where the bolded areas are what differ.

With this in mind, it looks like it is not a quote from the LXX, but a free paraphrase.

Although they are similar (and both use the same word "podes", feet), too much is different for it to be a direct quote.

LXX:
7 Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; desolation and destruction are in their paths. 8 The way of peace they don???t know; and there is no justice in their goings: they have made them crooked paths; whoever goes therein does not know peace.
Byz:
15 Their feet run to shed () blood: 16 Destruction and misery are in their ways: 17 And the way of peace have they have not known