Job 21:4
Is my debate against man, that I should not have just reason to be troubled?
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Numquid contra hominem disputatio mea est, ut merito non debeam contristari ?
- Septuagint (Swete)
- τί γάρ; μὴ ἀνθρώπου μου ἡ ἔλεγξις; ἢ διὰ τί οὐ θυμωθήσομαι;
- Hebrew (WLC)
- הֶ֭אָנֹכִי לְאָדָ֣ם שִׂיחִ֑י וְאִם מַ֝דּ֗וּעַ לֹא תִקְצַ֥ר רוּחִֽי
Haydock's commentary
Troubled. Hebrew, "Why is not my spirit shortened" by death, if your assertion be true? (Haydock) or why may I not be "troubled," since I have to deal, not with an enlightened judge, but with men who are under the greatest prejudices? (Calmet)
I seem to you to dispute against God. Have I not then reason to tremble? ver. 6. (Haydock)
Though he disputed with men, it was concerning Providence and eternal things. (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.