Job 14:19
Waters wear away the stones, and with inundation the ground by little and little is washed away: so in like manner thou shalt destroy man.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- lapides excavant aquæ, et alluvione paulatim terra consumitur : et hominem ergo similiter perdes.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- λίθους ἐλέαναν ὕδατα, καὶ κατέκλυσεν ὕδατα ὕπτια τοῦ χώματος τῆς γῆς· καὶ ὑπομονὴν ἀνθρώπου ἀπώλεσας.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- אֲבָנִ֤ים שָׁ֥חֲקוּ מַ֗יִם תִּשְׁטֹֽף סְפִיחֶ֥יהָ עֲפַר אָ֑רֶץ וְתִקְוַ֖ת אֱנ֣וֹשׁ הֶאֱבַֽדְתָּ
Haydock's commentary
Man. Hebrew and Septuagint, "the hope of man." (Haydock)
He must not expect to be more privileged than all other things, which time consumes. (Calmet)
Job again deplores human misery. (Menochius)
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.