Job 12:5
The lamp despised in the thoughts of the rich, is ready for the time appointed.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Lampas contempta apud cogitationes divitum parata ad tempus statutum.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- εἰς χρόνον γὰρ τακτὸν ἡτοίμαστο πεσεῖν ὑπὸ ἄλλων, οἴκους τε αὐτοῦ ἐκπορθεῖσθαι ὑπὸ ἀνόμων.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- לַפִּ֣יד בּ֭וּז לְעַשְׁתּ֣וּת שַׁאֲנָ֑ן נָ֝כ֗וֹן לְמ֣וֹעֲדֵי רָֽגֶל
Haydock's commentary
The lamp. Such is the just man, who under affliction is (Haydock) exposed to the ridicule of men who live at their ease.
For. Hebrew, "to fall." (Calmet) Septuagint, "It was appointed for me to fall under others at the time fixed."
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.