Job 20:11
His bones shall be filled with the vices of his youth, and they shall sleep with him in the dust.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Ossa ejus implebuntur vitiis adolescentiæ ejus, et cum eo in pulvere dormient.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ὀστᾶ αὐτοῦ ἐνεπλήσθησαν νεότητος αὐτοῦ, καὶ μετ᾽ αὐτοῦ ἐπὶ χώματος κοιμηθήσεται.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- עַ֭צְמוֹתָיו מָלְא֣וּ עלומו וְ֝עִמּ֗וֹ עַל עָפָ֥ר תִּשְׁכָּֽב
Haydock's commentary
Vices of, is not in Hebrew, but must be understood. (Haydock)
Youth. Some translate, "hidden." Sophar perhaps accuses Job of some secret abominations, for which he was afflicted with the venereal disease. At least, nothing is more common than to see people brought to old age and infirmities unnumbered, (Calmet) before their time, in consequence of riotous living in their youth. (Haydock)
Youth may also denote the sin in which we are born, which is the source of all our maladies, and is always dragging us towards the grave. (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.