Job 12:17
He bringeth counsellors to a foolish end, and judges to insensibility.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Adducit consiliarios in stultum finem, et judices in stuporem.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- διάγων βουλευτὰς αἰχμαλώτους, κριτὰς δὲ γῆς ἐξέστησεν.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- מוֹלִ֣יךְ יוֹעֲצִ֣ים שׁוֹלָ֑ל וְֽשֹׁפְטִ֥ים יְהוֹלֵֽל
Haydock's commentary
To a. Hebrew, "to be despoiled" of their wisdom and riches. (Calmet)
Septuagint, "into captivity." (Haydock)
Crafty plotters at last fall into such misconduct, as to be derided by men of the meanest capacity. (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.