Job 22:20
Is not their exaltation cut down, and hath not fire devoured the remnants of them?
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- nonne succisa est erectio eorum ? et reliquias eorum devoravit ignis ?
- Septuagint (Swete)
- εἰ μὴ ἠφανίσθη ἡ ὑπόστασις αὐτῶν, καὶ τὸ κατάλιμμα αὐτῶν καταφάγεται πῦρ.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- אִם לֹ֣א נִכְחַ֣ד קִימָ֑נוּ וְ֝יִתְרָ֗ם אָ֣כְלָה אֵֽשׁ
Haydock's commentary
Their. Hebrew, "our." (Calmet)
"Whereas our substance is not cut down." (Protestants) (Haydock)
But the Septuagint and Chaldean agree with the Vulgate, which gives a better sense.
Fire, which consumed Sodom, &c. (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.