Job 14:21
Whether his children come to honour or dishonour, he shall not understand.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Sive nobiles fuerint filii ejus, sive ignobiles, non intelliget.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- πολλῶν δὲ γενομένων τῶν υἱῶν αὐτοῦ οὐκ οἶδεν, ἐὰν δὲ ὀλίγοι γένωνται, οὐκ ἐπίσταται·
- Hebrew (WLC)
- יִכְבְּד֣וּ בָ֭נָיו וְלֹ֣א יֵדָ֑ע וְ֝יִצְעֲר֗וּ וְֽלֹא יָבִ֥ין לָֽמוֹ
Haydock's commentary
Or dishonour. He cannot naturally be informed. (Menochius)
God may, however, reveal to souls departed, what may increase their accidental happiness or misery. (Haydock)
Hence the Church prays to the saints. Job is speaking chiefly of the body in the grave, and of what appear exteriorly. During life man cannot foresee the state of his children; nor in the other world, would their condition render him happy or otherwise. (Calmet) (Mercer)
Septuagint, "If his sons be many,...or....few, he knows not." (Haydock)
He is not affected in the same manner as he would be, if living. (Worthington)
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.