Job 20:2
Therefore various thoughts succeed one another in me, and my mind is hurried away to different things.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Idcirco cogitationes meæ variæ succedunt sibi, et mens in diversa rapitur.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- Οὐχ οὕτως ὑπελάμβανον ἀντερεῖν σε ταῦτα· καὶ οὐχὶ συνίετε μᾶλλον ἢ καὶ ἐγώ.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- לָ֭כֵן שְׂעִפַּ֣י יְשִׁיב֑וּנִי וּ֝בַעֲב֗וּר ח֣וּשִׁי בִֽי
Haydock's commentary
Therefore. From this concession which thou hast just made. (Menochius)
Various. Hebrew, "Hence do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I hasten." Septuagint, "I did not thus suspect that thou wouldst contradict these things," &c. (Haydock)
Sophar only speaks this second time; and he produces little new, but begins with an air of more moderation, as if the arguments of Job had made some impression upon him. (Calmet)
He attempts to prove that the wicked have no comfort long; which is true in one sense, as all time is short, though they may prosper all their lives, as Job corrects his observation, chap. xxi. 13. (Worthington)
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.