Job 17:12
They have turned night into day, and after darkness I hope for light again.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Noctem verterunt in diem, et rursum post tenebras spero lucem.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- νύκτα εἰς ἡμέραν ἔθηκα, φῶς ἐγγὺς ἀπὸ προσώπου σκότους.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- לַ֭יְלָה לְי֣וֹם יָשִׂ֑ימוּ א֝֗וֹר קָר֥וֹב מִפְּנֵי חֹֽשֶׁךְ
Haydock's commentary
Day. Sleep flees from me. (Menochius)
All is in confusion.
After. Hebrew and Septuagint, "light is near in the face of darkness." (Haydock)
I still hope for relief.
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.