Job 16:22
And O that a man might so be judged with God, as the son of man is judged with his companion!
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- atque utinam sic judicaretur vir cum Deo, quomodo judicatur filius hominis cum collega suo.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- εἴη δὲ ἔλεγχος ἀνδρὶ ἔναντι Κυρίου, καὶ υἱῷ ἀνθρώπου τῷ πλησίον αὐτοῦ.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Job 16:21
- וְיוֹכַ֣ח לְגֶ֣בֶר עִם אֱל֑וֹהַּ וּֽבֶן אָדָ֥ם לְרֵעֵֽהוּ
Haydock's commentary
Judged. Hebrew, "might plead." (Haydock)
Earthly judges may be compelled to pronounce sentence publicly. Job is afraid lest the justice of his cause should remain undecided, till death overtook him, ver. 23. (Pineda)
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.