Job 16:21
My friends are full of words: my eye poureth out tears to God.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Verbosi amici mei : ad Deum stillat oculus meus :
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἀφίκοιτό μου ἡ δέησις πρὸς Κύριον, ἔναντι δὲ αὐτοῦ στάζοι μου ὁ ὀφθαλμός.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Job 16:20
- מְלִיצַ֥י רֵעָ֑י אֶל אֱ֝ל֗וֹהַ דָּלְפָ֥ה עֵינִֽי
Haydock's commentary
Full. Hebrew, "scorners." Therefore I appeal to inanimate things; and, above all, to God, who cannot give a wrong judgment.
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 Gregory the Great Book XI, To Theoctista, Patrician
I have to inform you, however, that I have learnt from the report of certain persons how that, owing to the levity of the people, a tumult of detraction has arisen against you. And I hear that your Excellency has consequently been distressed with no slight vexation. If this is so, I wonder much why the words of men on earth should agitate you, who have fixed your heart on heaven. For the blessed Job, when his friends who had come to console him had broken out into rebuke, said, For behold my witness is in heaven, and he that knows me is on high ( Job xvi. 20 ). For one who has the witness of his life in heaven ought not to be afraid of the judgments of men on earth. Paul also, a leader of good men, says, Our glory is this, the testimony of our conscience ( 2 Cor. i. 12 ). …
Aphrahat Aphrahat: Select Demonstrations, Of Death and the Latter Times
10. Remember, my beloved, and compare and consider in thy mind, who is there of former generations who has been left in this world so as to continue for ever? Death has led away the former generations, the great ones and the mighty and the subtle. Who is there that acquired great possessions, and at the time when he departed took them with him? That which was gathered together from the earth returns back into its bosom; and naked does a man depart from his possessions. The wise, when they acquire goods, send some of them before them, as Job said: My witnesses are heaven; and again: My brethren and my lovers are with God . And our Lord commanded them that acquire possessions to make for themselves friends in heaven, and also to lay up treasures there.