Job 15:20
The wicked man is proud all his days, and the number of the years of his tyranny is uncertain.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Cunctis diebus suis impius superbit, et numerus annorum incertus est tyrannidis ejus.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- πᾶς ὁ βίος ἀσεβοῦς ἐν φροντίδι, ἔτη δὲ ἀριθμητὰ δεδομένα δυνάστῃ,
- Hebrew (WLC)
- כָּל יְמֵ֣י רָ֭שָׁע ה֣וּא מִתְחוֹלֵ֑ל וּמִסְפַּ֥ר שָׁ֝נִ֗ים נִצְפְּנ֥וּ לֶעָרִֽיץ
Haydock's commentary
Proud; uncertain. Hebrew, "in pain." (Haydock)
Septuagint, "numbered," or few, Genesis xxxiv. 30. These are the maxims which Eliphaz had received in a vision, or from the ancients, ver. 17. The description of a tyrant's life was admirably verified in Dionysius, of Syracuse, (Calmet) and in our Cromwell, (Haydock)
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pale and trembling in the dead of night." (Pope)
who rarely lodged two night in one chamber. (Clarendon.)
Such live in dread, (Haydock) and seldom die a natural death.
Ad generum Cereris sine cæde et vulnere pauci
Descendunt reges et sicca morte Tyranni. (Juvenal x. 113.)
Nocte dieque suum gestare in pectore testem. (Juvenal xiii.)
They bear always about the witness, "conscience." (Haydock)
They distrust every one, and are hated by all.
Districtus ensis cui super impia
Cervice pendet, &c. (Horace iii. Ode 1.)
These miseries are incident to the wicked, but are improperly addressed to Job. (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.