Job 16:4
I also could speak like you: and would God your soul were for my soul.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Poteram et ego similia vestri loqui, atque utinam esset anima vestra pro anima mea :
- Septuagint (Swete)
- κἀγὼ καθ᾽ ὑμᾶς λαλήσω. εἰ ὑπέκειτό γε ἡ ψυχὴ ὑμῶν ἀντὶ τῆς ἐμῆς,
- Hebrew (WLC)
- גַּ֤ם אָנֹכִי֮ כָּכֶ֪ם אֲדַ֫בֵּ֥רָה ל֤וּ יֵ֪שׁ נַפְשְׁכֶ֡ם תַּ֤חַת נַפְשִׁ֗י אַחְבִּ֣ירָה עֲלֵיכֶ֣ם בְּמִלִּ֑ים וְאָנִ֥יעָה עֲ֝לֵיכֶ֗ם בְּמ֣וֹ רֹאשִֽׁי
Haydock's commentary
My soul. If you had experienced my state of misery, (Haydock) I surely would not have behaved thus to you. (Calmet)
Facile, cum valemus, recta consilia ægrotis damus:
Tu si hîc sis, aliter sentias. (Terent. Andria.)
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.