Job 24:4
They have overturned the way of the poor, and have oppressed together the meek of the earth.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Subverterunt pauperum viam, et oppresserunt pariter mansuetos terræ.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἐξέκλιναν ἀδυνάτους ἐξ ὁδοῦ δικαίας, ὁμοθυμαδὸν δὲ ἐκρύβησαν πρᾳεῖς γῆς.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- יַטּ֣וּ אֶבְיוֹנִ֣ים מִדָּ֑רֶךְ יַ֥חַד חֻ֝בְּא֗וּ עֲנִיֵּי אָֽרֶץ
Haydock's commentary
Poor, by oppression, not allowing them to get their bread, or to walk on the same road. (Calmet)
And have. Hebrew and Septuagint, "the meek....have hidden themselves together."
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.