Job 16:3
Shall windy words have no end? or is it any trouble to thee to speak?
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Numquid habebunt finem verba ventosa ? aut aliquid tibi molestum est, si loquaris ?
- Septuagint (Swete)
- τί γάρ; μὴ τάξις ἐστὶν ῥήμασιν πνεύματος; ἢ τί παρενοχλήσει σοι ὅτι ἀποκρίνῃ;
- Hebrew (WLC)
- הֲקֵ֥ץ לְדִבְרֵי ר֑וּחַ א֥וֹ מַה יַּ֝מְרִֽיצְךָ֗ כִּ֣י תַעֲנֶֽה
Haydock's commentary
Windy, inconclusive arguments. They all entertain a mean opinion of their adversaries, as they did not agree in the application of the propositions. Hence though they might be true, they were nothing to their present purpose, chap. xv. 3. (Haydock)
Trouble. You can speak without any pain: but the case is far different with me. (Menochius)
Hebrew, "what emboldeneth thee to answer?" (Haydock)
Who asks thee for advice? (Calmet)
True friends will give it without upbraiding, or laying false crimes to the charge of any one. (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.