Job 21:5
Hearken to me and be astonished, and lay your finger on your mouth.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Attendite me et obstupescite, et superponite digitum ori vestro.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- εἰσβλέψαντες εἰς ἐμὲ θαυμάσετε, χεῖρα θέντες ἐπὶ σιαγόνι.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- פְּנוּ אֵלַ֥י וְהָשַׁ֑מּוּ וְשִׂ֖ימוּ יָ֣ד עַל פֶּֽה
Haydock's commentary
Hearken to. Literally, "look steadfastly on me." (Haydock)
Compare my present with my former condition, and do not pretend to fathom God's judgments; which fill me also with astonishment, when I consider why the virtuous are distressed, and the wicked prosper, ver. 7.
Mouth be silent. Harpocrates, the god of silence, was represented in this posture; and Virgil says, Intentique ora tenebant. (Æneid ii.)
Septuagint, "upon the cheek," like men in deep consideration. (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.