Job 17:14
If I have said to rottenness: Thou art my father; to worms, my mother and my sister.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Putredini dixi : Pater meus es ; Mater mea, et soror mea, vermibus.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- θάνατον ἐπεκαλεσάμην πατέρα μου εἶναι, μητέρα δέ μου καὶ ἀδελφὴν σαπρίαν.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- לַשַּׁ֣חַת קָ֭רָאתִי אָ֣בִי אָ֑תָּה אִמִּ֥י וַ֝אֲחֹתִ֗י לָֽרִמָּֽה
Haydock's commentary
Sister. I am nearly related to such things, and ready to drop into the grave, as my flesh is already devoured by worms. (Menochius)
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.