Job 12:23
He multiplieth nations, and destroyeth them, and restoreth them again after they were overthrown.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Qui multiplicat gentes, et perdit eas, et subversas in integrum restituit.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καταστρωννύων ἔθνη καὶ καθοδηγῶν αὐτά.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- מַשְׂגִּ֣יא לַ֭גּוֹיִם וַֽיְאַבְּדֵ֑ם שֹׁטֵ֥חַ לַ֝גּוֹיִ֗ם וַיַּנְחֵֽם
Haydock's commentary
Multiplieth. Hebrew, Septuagint, and Syriac, "deceiveth," (Calmet) suffering them to confide too much in their strength, so that they fall an easy prey. (Haydock)
How many nations, once so powerful, are now fallen; while others of no account have risen to eminence!
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.