Job 21:14
Who have said to God: Depart from us, we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Qui dixerunt Deo : Recede a nobis, et scientiam viarum tuarum nolumus.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- λέγει δὲ Κυρίῳ Ἀπόστα ἀπ᾽ ἐμοῦ, ὁδούς σου εἰδέναι οὐ βούλομαι·
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיֹּאמְר֣וּ לָ֭אֵל ס֣וּר מִמֶּ֑נּוּ וְדַ֥עַת דְּ֝רָכֶ֗יךָ לֹ֣א חָפָֽצְנוּ
Haydock's commentary
Ways. The too common effect of riches, Proverbs xxx. 8., and Ecclesiasticus v. 2.
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.
The Fathers on this verse
St Ambrose On the Duties of the Clergy, Chapter XII. To prevent any one from being checked in the exercise of mercy, he shows that God cares for human actions; and proves on the evidence of Job that all wicked men are unhappy in the very abundance of their wealth
42. A faint-hearted man, seeing this, is disturbed in mind, and turns his attention away from it. Holy Job, when about to speak in the words of such a one, began thus, saying: “Bear with me, I also will speak; then laugh at me. For if I am found fault with, I am found fault with as a man. Bear, therefore, the burden of my words.” For I am going to say (he means) what I do not approve; but I shall utter wrong words to refute you. Or, to translate it in another way: “How now? Am I found fault with by a man?” That is: a man cannot find fault with me because I have sinned, although I deserve to be found fault with; for ye do not find fault with me on the ground of an open sin, but estimate what I deserve for my offences by the extent of my misfortunes. …