Job 15:13
Why doth thy spirit swell against God, to utter such words out of thy mouth?
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Quid tumet contra Deum spiritus tuus, ut proferas de ore tuo hujuscemodi sermones ?
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ὅτι θυμὸν ἔρρηξας ἔναντι Κυρίου, ἐξήγαγες δὲ ἐκ στόματος ῥήματα τοιαῦτα;
- Hebrew (WLC)
- כִּֽי תָשִׁ֣יב אֶל אֵ֣ל רוּחֶ֑ךָ וְהֹצֵ֖אתָ מִפִּ֣יךָ מִלִּֽין
The Fathers on this verse
St Augustine City of God, Of the Diversity of Languages, and of the Founding of Babylon
But though these nations are said to have been dispersed according to their languages, yet the narrator recurs to that time when all had but one language, and explains how it came to pass that a diversity of languages was introduced. “The whole earth,” he says, “was of one lip, and all had one speech. And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and dwelt there. And they said one to another, Come, and let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly. And they had bricks for stone, and slime for mortar. And they said, Come, and let us build for ourselves a city, and a tower whose top shall reach the sky; and let us make us a name, before we be scattered abroad on the face of all the earth. And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded. …