Job 22:16
Who were taken away before their time, and a flood hath overthrown their foundation.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- qui sublati sunt ante tempus suum, et fluvius subvertit fundamentum eorum ?
- Septuagint (Swete)
- οἳ συνελήμφθησαν ἄωροι; ποταμὸς ἐπιρρέων οἱ θεμέλιοι αὐτῶν·
- Hebrew (WLC)
- אֲשֶֽׁר קֻמְּט֥וּ וְלֹא עֵ֑ת נָ֝הָ֗ר יוּצַ֥ק יְסוֹדָֽם
Haydock's commentary
Flood. Hebrew, "river," (Septuagint; Calmet) or "flood." (Protestants) This does not certainly allude to the deluge, though Job could not be unacquainted with an event (Haydock) which appears in the writings of the most ancient pagan authors. (Grotius, Relig.)
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.