Job 17:3
Deliver me O Lord, and set me beside thee, and let any man's hand fight against me.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Libera me, Domine, et pone me juxta te, et cujusvis manus pugnet contra me.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἔκλεψαν δέ μου τὰ ὑπάρχοντα ἀλλότριοι· τίς ἐστιν οὗτος; τῇ χειρί μου συνδεθήτω.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- שִֽׂימָה נָּ֭א עָרְבֵ֣נִי עִמָּ֑ךְ מִֽי ה֝֗וּא לְיָדִ֥י יִתָּקֵֽעַ
Haydock's commentary
Fight. I am secure under thy protection. Hebrew, "who will strike hands with me?" or stand bondsman for my debt? (Proverbs vi. 1.) Who will take my place? You accuse me of weakness and of impiety: but how would you act, if you were treated in the same manner? (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.