Job 21:11
Their little ones go out like a flock, and their children dance and play.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Egrediuntur quasi greges parvuli eorum, et infantes eorum exultant lusibus.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- μένουσιν δὲ ὡς πρόβατα αἰώνια, τὰ δὲ παιδία αὐτῶν προσπαίζουσιν·
- Hebrew (WLC)
- יְשַׁלְּח֣וּ כַ֭צֹּאן עֲוִילֵיהֶ֑ם וְ֝יַלְדֵיהֶ֗ם יְרַקֵּדֽוּן
Haydock's commentary
Their. Septuagint, "They continue like eternal sheep, as if they and their flocks would never die. (Calmet)
And play, is to shew the nature of the dance. It is not in Hebrew. (Haydock)
The children are healthy and sportive. (Menochius)
Septuagint, "they play before them." (Haydock)
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.