Job 22:12
Dost not thou think that God is higher than heaven, and is elevated above the height of the stars?
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- an non cogitas quod Deus excelsior cælo sit, et super stellarum verticem sublimetur ?
- Septuagint (Swete)
- μὴ οὐχὶ ὁ τὰ ὑψηλὰ ναίων ἐφορᾷ, τοὺς δὲ ὕβρει φερομένους ἐταπείνωσεν;
- Hebrew (WLC)
- הֲֽלֹא אֱ֭לוֹהַּ גֹּ֣בַהּ שָׁמָ֑יִם וּרְאֵ֤ה רֹ֖אשׁ כּוֹכָבִ֣ים כִּי רָֽמּוּ
Haydock's commentary
Stars: and of course, that his Providence regardeth not human affairs. (Calmet)
When an infidel observed, "I think the gods are too great to want my adoration," Socrates well replied, "The greater they appear to thee, the more oughtest thou to treat them with respect and honour." (Xenophon, Memor.)
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.