Job 12:2
Are you then men alone, and shall wisdom die with you?
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Ergo vos estis soli homines, et vobiscum morietur sapientia ?
- Septuagint (Swete)
- Εἶτα ὑμεῖς ἐστε ἄνθρωποι· ⸆ ἦ μεθ᾽ ὑμῶν τελευτήσει σοφία.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- אָ֭מְנָם כִּ֣י אַתֶּם עָ֑ם וְ֝עִמָּכֶ֗ם תָּמ֥וּת חָכְמָֽה
Haydock's commentary
You. Hebrew, "Truly you are the people, and wisdom will die with you!" This irony is very sharp. (Calmet)
"Are you alone men? or shall?" &c. (Septuagint; Syriac)
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.