Job 20:24
He shall flee from weapons of iron, and shall fall upon a bow of brass.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Fugiet arma ferrea, et irruet in arcum æreum.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ οὐ μὴ σωθῇ ἐκ χειρὸς σιδήρου, τρώσαι αὐτὸν τόξον χάλκειον·
- Hebrew (WLC)
- יִ֭בְרַח מִנֵּ֣שֶׁק בַּרְזֶ֑ל תַּ֝חְלְפֵ֗הוּ קֶ֣שֶׁת נְחוּשָֽׁה
Haydock's commentary
Brass; of which metal the strongest bows were made. Protestants have, "steel:" (Haydock) but brass was used by the ancients for the same purpose. (Calmet)
This proverb shews that those who endeavour to escape from men, fall into the hands of God. (Delrio. Adag. 9, t. ii.)
Incidit in Scyllam cupiens vitare Charybdim. (Virgil) (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.