Job 14:20
Thou hast strengthened him for a little while, that he may pass away for ever: thou shalt change his face, and shalt send him away.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Roborasti eum paululum, ut in perpetuum transiret : immutabis faciem ejus, et emittes eum.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ὦσας αὐτὸν εἰς τέλος, καὶ ᾤχετο· ἐπέστησας αὐτῷ τὸ πρόσωπον, καὶ ἐξαπέστειλας·
- Hebrew (WLC)
- תִּתְקְפֵ֣הוּ לָ֭נֶצַח וַֽיַּהֲלֹ֑ךְ מְשַׁנֶּ֥ה פָ֝נָ֗יו וַֽתְּשַׁלְּחֵֽהוּ
Haydock's commentary
Strengthened. Septuagint, "driven away." (Pagnin, &c.)
"Thou wilt treat him harshly." (Calmet)
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.