Job 24:18
He is light upon the face of the water: cursed be his portion on the earth, let him not walk by the way of the vineyards.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Levis est super faciem aquæ : maledicta sit pars ejus in terra, nec ambulet per viam vinearum.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἐλαφρός ἐστιν ἐπὶ πρόσωπον ὕδατος· καταραθείη ἡ μερὶς αὐτῶν ἐπὶ γῆς, ἀναφανείη δὲ τὰ φυτὰ αὐτῶν
- Hebrew (WLC)
- קַֽל ה֤וּא עַל פְּנֵי מַ֗יִם תְּקֻלַּ֣ל חֶלְקָתָ֣ם בָּאָ֑רֶץ לֹֽא יִ֝פְנֶה דֶּ֣רֶךְ כְּרָמִֽים
Haydock's commentary
He is light, &c. That is, the adulterer, that he may not be perceived and discovered, steps as nimbly and as light as if he were walking upon the waters. Or the sense is: he is as light, that is, as swift and nimble as the running waters.
By the way of the vineyards. That is, by the way where he may meet with fruit and blessings. (Challoner)
The wicked are always inconstant. (Calmet) (Isaias lvii. 29.)
He deserves no temporal nor eternal happiness. If he were deprived of the former, he might perhaps endeavour to escape the torments of hell. (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.