Job 16:23
For behold short years pass away and I am walking in a path by which I shall not return.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Ecce enim breves anni transeunt, et semitam per quam non revertar ambulo.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἔτη δὲ ἀριθμητὰ ἥκασιν, ὁδῷ δὲ ᾗ οὐκ ἐπαναστραφήσομαι πορεύσομαι.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Job 16:22
- כִּֽי שְׁנ֣וֹת מִסְפָּ֣ר יֶאֱתָ֑יוּ וְאֹ֖רַח לֹא אָשׁ֣וּב אֶהֱלֹֽךְ
Haydock's commentary
Years. Hebrew and Septuagint, "of number." Pauperis est numerare pecus. (Haydock)
Like a man under affliction, Job repeats what he had said, chap. xiv. 5., (Menochius) and chap. x. 20. (Haydock)
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.