Job 12:20
He changeth the speech of the true speakers, and taketh away the doctrine of the aged.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- commutans labium veracium, et doctrinam senum auferens.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- διαλλάσσων χείλη πιστῶν, σύνεσιν δὲ πρεσβυτέρων ἔγνω.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- מֵסִ֣יר שָׂ֭פָה לְנֶאֱמָנִ֑ים וְטַ֖עַם זְקֵנִ֣ים יִקָּֽח
Haydock's commentary
Speakers. Permitting them to speak deceitfully, (Calmet) or causing their oracles to be contemned. (Haydock)
Hebrew, "he withdraws speech from men of confidence." (Calmet)
Neemanim, (Haydock) ambassadors or prime ministers, Numbers xii. 7. He disconcerteth the best concerted plans.
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.