Job 1:20
Then Job rose up, and rent his garments, and having shaven his head fell down upon the ground and worshipped,
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Tunc surrexit Job, et scidit vestimenta sua : et tonso capite corruens in terram, adoravit,
- Septuagint (Swete)
- οὕτως ἀναστὰς Ἰὼβ διέρρηξεν τὰ ἱμάτια ἑαυτοῦ καὶ ἐκείρατο τὴν κόμην τῆς κεφαλῆς, καὶ πεσὼν χαμαὶ προσεκύνησεν
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיָּ֤קָם אִיּוֹב֙ וַיִּקְרַ֣ע אֶת מְעִל֔וֹ וַיָּ֖גָז אֶת רֹאשׁ֑וֹ וַיִּפֹּ֥ל אַ֖רְצָה וַיִּשְׁתָּֽחוּ
Haydock's commentary
Head. Hebrew, torn his hair, and rolled in the dust. (Bochart) (Isaias xv. 2., &c.) (Calmet)
The fathers oppose this example to the apathy of the stoics. (St. Augustine, City of God i. 9.) (Romans i. 31.)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.
The Fathers on this verse
St Jerome The Letters of St. Jerome, To Julian
2. I hear that in a short space of time you have suffered several bereavements, that you have buried in quick succession two young unmarried daughters, and that Faustina, most chaste and loyal of wives, your sister in the fervour of her faith and your one comfort in the loss of your children, has suddenly fallen asleep and been taken from you. You have been like a shipwrecked man, who has no sooner reached the shore than he falls into the hands of brigands, or in the eloquent language of the prophet like one “who did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.” Pecuniary losses have followed your bereavements; the entire province has been overrun by a barbarian enemy, and in the general devastation your private property has been destroyed, your flocks and herds have been driven off, and your poor slaves either made …