Job 10:20
Shall not the fewness of my days be ended shortly? suffer me, therefore, that I may lament my sorrow a little:
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Numquid non paucitas dierum meorum finietur brevi ? dimitte ergo me, ut plangam paululum dolorem meum,
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἢ οὐκ ὀλίγος ἐστὶν ὁ βίος τοῦ χρόνου μου; ἔασόν με ἀναπαύσασθαι μικρὸν
- Hebrew (WLC)
- הֲלֹא מְעַ֣ט יָמַ֣י יחדל ישית מִ֝מֶּ֗נִּי וְאַבְלִ֥יגָה מְּעָֽט
Haydock's commentary
Lament. Hebrew, "take comfort," (Haydock) or breath. (Calmet)
Repentance is always necessary, but more particularly at the hour of death. (Worthington)
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.