Job 14:15
Thou shalt call me, and I will answer thee: to the work of thy hands thou shalt reach out thy right hand.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Vocabis me, et ego respondebo tibi : operi manuum tuarum porriges dexteram.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- εἶτα καλέσεις, ἐγὼ δέ σοι ὑπακούσομαι, τὰ δὲ ἔργα τῶν χειρῶν σου μὴ ἀποποιοῦ.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- תִּ֭קְרָא וְאָנֹכִ֣י אֶֽעֱנֶ֑ךָּ לְֽמַעֲשֵׂ֖ה יָדֶ֣יךָ תִכְסֹֽף
The Fathers on this verse
Minucius Felix The Octavius of Minucius Felix, Chapter XXXIV
“Further, in respect of the burning up of the world, it is a vulgar error not to believe either that fire will fall upon it in an unforeseen way, or that the world will be destroyed by it. For who of wise men doubts, who is ignorant, that all things which have had a beginning perish, all things which are made come to an end? The heaven also, with all things which are contained in heaven, will cease even as it began. The nourishment of the seas by the sweet waters of the springs shall pass away into the power of fire. The Stoics have a constant belief that, the moisture being dried up, all this world will take fire; and the Epicureans have the very same opinion concerning the conflagration of the elements and the destruction of the world. …