Job 12:18
He looseth the belt of kings, and girdeth their loins with a cord.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Balteum regum dissolvit, et præcingit fune renes eorum.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καθιζάνων βασιλεῖς ἐπὶ θρόνους, καὶ περιέδησεν ζώνῃ ὀσφύας αὐτῶν.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- מוּסַ֣ר מְלָכִ֣ים פִּתֵּ֑חַ וַיֶּאְסֹ֥ר אֵ֝ז֗וֹר בְּמָתְנֵיהֶֽם
Haydock's commentary
Looseth. Septuagint, "setteth kings upon the throne," &c.
Belt. This was usually very magnificent, and a military ornament. See that of Pallas described. (Virgil, Æneid x.) Job intimates that God deprives kings of their authority, at pleasure. Hebrew may also signify that he looseth the bond or prisoner of kings, and reduces themselves to slavery. (Calmet)
Things never remain long in the same state. (Haydock)
Even kings are sometimes obliged to beg. (Menochius)
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.