Job 21:16
Yet because their good things are not in their hand, may the counsel of the wicked be far from me.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Verumtamen quia non sunt in manu eorum bona sua, consilium impiorum longe sit a me.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἐν χερσὶν γὰρ ἦν αὐτῶν τὰ ἀγαθά, ἔργα δὲ ἀσεβῶν οὐκ ἐφορᾷ.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- הֵ֤ן לֹ֣א בְיָדָ֣ם טוּבָ֑ם עֲצַ֥ת רְ֝שָׁעִ֗ים רָ֣חֲקָה מֶֽנִּי
Haydock's commentary
Because, is not in Hebrew. "Lo, their good is not." They are not possessed of true riches, or of good sense. Alexandrian Septuagint, "For good things were in their hands: but the works of the impious are not pure." No: the more they possess, the greater is their perversity. Grabe substitutes oukathora, for kathara; God "does not behold" the works, &c., which is more conformable to the other editions; and thus the blasphemies of the impious are continued. (Haydock)
When we are not sensible of our wants and dependance, we think less on God. (Calmet)
Hand, or power, they are only the gifts of God; far be then such sentiments from me. (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.