Job 23:17
For I have not perished because of the darkness that hangs over me, neither hath the mist covered my face.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Non enim perii propter imminentes tenebras, nec faciem meam operuit caligo.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- οὐ γὰρ ᾔδειν ὅτι ἐπελεύσεταί μοι σκότος, πρὸ προσώπου δὲ μου ἐκάλυψεν γνόφος.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- כִּֽי לֹ֣א נִ֭צְמַתִּי מִפְּנֵי חֹ֑שֶׁךְ וּ֝מִפָּנַ֗י כִּסָּה אֹֽפֶל
Haydock's commentary
Face. My afflictions have not yet taken away my life, as might have been expected. (Haydock)
I am less affected with my miseries, than with the dread of God's presence, ver. 15, 16. (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.