Job 24:19
Let him pass from the snow waters to excessive heat, and his sin even to hell.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Ad nimium calorem transeat ab aquis nivium, et usque ad inferos peccatum illius.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἐπὶ γῆς ξηρά· ἀγκαλίδα γὰρ ὀρφανῶν ἥρπασαν.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- צִיָּ֤ה גַם חֹ֗ם יִגְזְל֥וּ מֵֽימֵי שֶׁ֗לֶג שְׁא֣וֹל חָטָֽאוּ
Haydock's commentary
Let. Hebrew, "Drought and heat consume the snow waters; so doth the grave those which have sinned." (Protestants) (Chaldean) (Haydock)
The wicked die quickly, and without a lingering illness. (Piscator)
What foundation, therefore, has the hell of cold as well as of fire? says Amama. St. Jerome (in Matthew x.) observes, "We read very plainly in the Book of Job that there is a double gehenna, both of too much heat and of too much cold;" the latter occasions the gnashing of teeth, Matthew viii. (Denis the Carthusian)
"In this world people pass through a medium or temperate state. But in hell, they pass from the excess of tormenting cold to that of burning fire; they will know no medium, because in this life they proceeded from one vice to another, even to the heat of lust. (Albertus Magnus.) (Haydock)
Therefore they are punished with torments of a contrary nature. (Worthington)
They go from the coldness of infidelity to the heat of heresy; (St. Gregory) from one calamity to another. (Sa)
Septuagint, " For they have torn away the arm of the orphans. Then his or their sin has been remembered, and, like a dew-drop, he has disappeared. (Haydock)
Haydock wrote amid the controversies of his day. The Church teaches that those born into communities separated from her cannot be charged with the sin of separation, and embraces them as brothers (CCC 818).
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.