Job 11:20
But the eyes of the wicked shall decay, and the way to escape shall fail them, and their hope the abomination of the soul.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Oculi autem impiorum deficient, et effugium peribit ab eis : et spes illorum abominatio animæ.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- σωτηρία δὲ αὐτοὺς ἀπολείψει· ἡ γὰρ ἐλπὶς αὐτῶν ἀπώλεια, ὀφθαλμοὶ δὲ ἀσεβῶν τακήσονται.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וְעֵינֵ֥י רְשָׁעִ֗ים תִּ֫כְלֶ֥ינָה וּ֭מָנוֹס אָבַ֣ד מִנְהֶ֑ם וְ֝תִקְוָתָ֗ם מַֽפַּח נָֽפֶשׁ
Haydock's commentary
Soul, because hope deferred causeth pain to the soul, Proverbs xiii. 12. (Menochius)
Hebrew, "their hope shall be the sorrow, or the breathing out of the soul." (Calmet)
Protestants, "the giving up of the ghost." Marginal note, "a puff of breath," chap. xviii. 14. (Haydock)
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.