Job 24:22
He hath pulled down the strong by his might: and when he standeth up, he shall not trust to his life.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Detraxit fortes in fortitudine sua, et cum steterit, non credet vitæ suæ.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- θυμῷ δὲ κατέστρεψεν ἀδυνάτους. ἀναστὰς τοιγαροῦν οὐ μὴ πιστεύσῃ κατὰ τῆς ἑαυτοῦ ζωῆς·
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וּמָשַׁ֣ךְ אַבִּירִ֣ים בְּכֹח֑וֹ יָ֝ק֗וּם וְֽלֹא יַאֲמִ֥ין בַּֽחַיִּֽין
Haydock's commentary
Down. Hebrew, "taketh along with him his guards for his defence. He riseth and is not sure of his life," fearing lest his enemies may still overpower him. This is a description of the tyrant's continual anxiety. (Calmet)
Protestants, "And no man is sure of life," may intimate that the wicked put all men in danger. (Haydock)
He who puts others in fear, must also be alarmed. (Menochius)
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.