Job 15:14
What is man that he should be without spot, and he that is born of a woman that he should appear just?
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Quid est homo ut immaculatus sit, et ut justus appareat natus de muliere ?
- Septuagint (Swete)
- τίς γὰρ ὢν βροτός, ὅτι ἔσται ἄμεμπτος, ἢ ὡς ἐσόμενος δίκαιος γεννητὸς γυναικός;
- Hebrew (WLC)
- מָֽה אֱנ֥וֹשׁ כִּֽי יִזְכֶּ֑ה וְכִֽי יִ֝צְדַּ֗ק יְל֣וּד אִשָּֽׁה
Haydock's commentary
Just. Few are free from all spot; but venial sins do not hinder a man from being styled truly virtuous. (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.
The Fathers on this verse
St John Cassian The Conferences of John Cassian. Part I. Containing Conferences I-X, Chapter XIV. The answer to the point raised by the questioner
Theodore : It is needful that one must either, as the Apostle says, “be renewed in the spirit of the mind,” and daily advance by “pressing forward to those things which are before,” or, if one neglects to do this, the sure result will be to go back, and become worse and worse. And therefore the mind cannot possibly remain in one and the same state. Just as when a man, by pulling hard, is trying to force a boat against the stream of a strong current he must either stem the rush of the torrent by the force of his arms, and so mount to what is higher up, or letting his hands slacken be whirled headlong down stream. …