Job 22:14
The clouds are his covert, and he doth not consider our things, and he walketh about the poles of heaven.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Nubes latibulum ejus, nec nostra considerat, et circa cardines cæli perambulat.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- νεφέλη ⸆ ἀποκρυφῆς αὐτοῦ, καὶ οὐχ ὁραθήσεται, καὶ γῦρον οὐρανοῦ διαπορεύεται.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- עָבִ֣ים סֵֽתֶר ל֭וֹ וְלֹ֣א יִרְאֶ֑ה וְח֥וּג שָׁ֝מַ֗יִם יִתְהַלָּֽךְ
Haydock's commentary
Doth. Hebrew, "seeth not." Septuagint, "is not seen."
Poles, on which the whole machine seems to turn. (Calmet)
"Hipparchus intimated that there would be a time when the hinges, or poles of heaven, would be moved out of their places." (Colum. i. 1.) Hebrew and Septuagint, (according to Origen's edition, ver. 13 to 16) "he walketh about in the circuit of heaven." (Haydock)
Immortali ævo summa cum pace fruatur
Semota a nostris rebus, sejunctaque longe. (Lucretius)
This was the error of the Egyptians, (Aristotle, Mun. 84.) which Eliphaz unjustly lays to the charge of Job, as heretics often impute condemned tenets to Catholics. (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.