Job 16:17
My face is swollen with weeping, and my eyelids are dim.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Facies mea intumuit a fletu, et palpebræ meæ caligaverunt.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἡ γαστήρ μου συνκέκαυται ἀπὸ κλαυθμοῦ, ἐπὶ δὲ βλεφάροις μου σκιά·
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Job 16:16
- פָּנַ֣י חמרמרה מִנִּי בֶ֑כִי וְעַ֖ל עַפְעַפַּ֣י צַלְמָֽוֶת
Haydock's commentary
Dim. Hebrew and Septuagint, "covered with the shadow of death," (Haydock) greatly impaired. Some have almost lost their sight by weeping; and death seemed ready to close Job's eyes. (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.