Job 16:5
I would comfort you also with words, and would wag my head over you.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- consolarer et ego vos sermonibus, et moverem caput meum super vos ;
- Septuagint (Swete)
- εἶτ᾽ ἐναλοῦμαι ὑμῖν ῥήμασιν, κινήσω δὲ καθ᾽ ὑμῶν κεφαλήν.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Job 16:4
- גַּ֤ם אָנֹכִי֮ כָּכֶ֪ם אֲדַ֫בֵּ֥רָה ל֤וּ יֵ֪שׁ נַפְשְׁכֶ֡ם תַּ֤חַת נַפְשִׁ֗י אַחְבִּ֣ירָה עֲלֵיכֶ֣ם בְּמִלִּ֑ים וְאָנִ֥יעָה עֲ֝לֵיכֶ֗ם בְּמ֣וֹ רֹאשִֽׁי
Haydock's commentary
Wag, or shake my head out of pity, chap. xlii. 11., and Nahum iii. 7. The same sign often indicates astonishment or contempt, Psalm xxi. 8., and Matthew xxvii. 39. (Calmet)
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.