Job 23:8
But if I go to the east, he appeareth not; if to the west, I shall not understand him.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Si ad orientem iero, non apparet ; si ad occidentem, non intelligam eum.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- εἰς γὰρ πρῶτα πορεύσομαι, καὶ οὐκ ἔτι εἰμί, τὰ δὲ ἐπ᾽ ἐσχάτοις, τί οἶδα;
- Hebrew (WLC)
- הֵ֤ן קֶ֣דֶם אֶהֱלֹ֣ךְ וְאֵינֶ֑נּוּ וְ֝אָח֗וֹר וְֽלֹא אָבִ֥ין לֽוֹ
Haydock's commentary
East, or Hebrew, "before....if behind I cannot perceive him." (Calmet)
Where, then, shall I find this just judge? ver. 3. (Haydock)
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.
The Fathers on this verse
St Augustine Book X, Chapter XXVI
37. Where, then, did I find Thee, so as to be able to learn Thee? For Thou wert not in my memory before I learned Thee. Where, then, did I find Thee, so as to be able to learn Thee, but in Thee above me? Place there is none; we go both “backward” and “forward,” and there is no place. Everywhere, O Truth, dost Thou direct all who consult Thee, and dost at once answer all, though they consult Thee on divers things. Clearly dost Thou answer, though all do not with clearness hear. All consult Thee upon whatever they wish, though they hear not always that which they wish. He is Thy best servant who does not so much look to hear that from Thee which he himself wisheth, as to wish that which he heareth from Thee.