Job 23:6
I would not that he should contend with me with much strength, nor overwhelm me with the weight of his greatness.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Nolo multa fortitudine contendat mecum, nec magnitudinis suæ mole me premat.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ἐν πολλῇ ἰσχύι ἐπελεύσεταί μοι· εἶτα ἐν ἀπειλῇ μοι οὐ χρήσεται.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- הַבְּרָב כֹּ֭חַ יָרִ֣יב עִמָּדִ֑י לֹ֥א אַךְ ה֝֗וּא יָשִׂ֥ם בִּֽי
Haydock's commentary
Nor. Protestants, "No, but he would put strength in me." He would enable me to stand my trial. (Haydock)
He would lay no falsehood to my charge.
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.