Job 17:16
All that I have shall go down into the deepest pit: thinkest thou that there at least I shall have rest?
The verse in its languages
- Vulgate (Clementine)
- In profundissimum infernum descendent omnia mea : putasne saltem ibi erit requies mihi ?
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἢ μετ᾽ ἐμοῦ εἰς ᾅδην καταβήσονται, ἢ ὁμοθυμαδὸν ἐπὶ χώματος καταβησόμεθα;
- Hebrew (WLC)
- בַּדֵּ֣י שְׁאֹ֣ל תֵּרַ֑דְנָה אִם יַ֖חַד עַל עָפָ֣ר נָֽחַת
Haydock's commentary
Deepest pit. Literally hell. (Challoner)
Hebrew, "We shall go down to the bars of the pit, when we shall rest together in the dust." My hopes may be frustrated by death; (Haydock) or you, my friends, must also go to the house of eternity. (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.
The Fathers on this verse
St Gregory Nazianzen The Oration on Holy Baptism
XL. And what of the loins, or reins, for we must not pass these over? Let the purification take hold of these also. Let our loins be girded about and kept in check by conti nence, as the Law bade Israel of old when partaking of the Passover. For none comes out of Egypt purely, or escapes the Destroyer, except he who has disciplined these. And let the reins be changed by that good conversion by which they transfer all the affections to God, so that they can say, Lord, all my desire is before Thee, and the day of man have I not desired; for you must be a man of desires, but they must be those of the spirit. For thus you would destroy the dragon that carries the greater part of his strength upon his navel and his loins, by slaying the power that comes to him from these. …