Job 17:13
If I wait hell is my house, and I have made my bed in darkness.
Challoner: HellSheol. The region of the dead.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Si sustinuero, infernus domus mea est, et in tenebris stravi lectulum meum.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἐὰν γὰρ ὑπομείνω, ᾅδης μου ὁ οἶκος, ἐν δὲ γνόφῳ ἔστρωταί μου ἡ στρωμνή.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- אִם אֲ֭קַוֶּה שְׁא֣וֹל בֵּיתִ֑י בַּ֝חֹ֗שֶׁךְ רִפַּ֥דְתִּי יְצוּעָֽי
Haydock's commentary
Hell. Seol. The region of the dead. (Challoner)
Protestants, "grave." (Haydock)
But this text proves that there was a place of rest called hell. (Worthington)
He speaks here chiefly of the body. (Calmet)
Mors ultima linea rerum est. (Horace)
"Death is the end of all." (Haydock)
If I refrain from complaining, still I cannot expect to be restored to health.
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.