Job 26:13
His spirit hath adorned the heavens, and his obstetric hand brought forth the winding serpent.
Challoner: His obstetric hand brought forth the winding serpentThat is, the omnipotent power of God: which brought forth all things created in time, but conceived in the Divine mind from all eternity. The winding serpent, a constellation of fixed stars winding round the north pole, called Draco. This appears from the foregoing part of the same verse, His spirit hath adorned the heavens.
Open Job 26:13 in the Motif Searcher, word by word across all five texts →Show on the spiral →The verse in its languages
- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Spiritus ejus ornavit cælos, et obstetricante manu ejus, eductus est coluber tortuosus.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- κλεῖθρα δὲ οὐρανοῦ δεδοίκασιν αὐτόν· προστάγματι δὲ ἐθανάτωσεν δράκοντα ἀποστάτην.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- בְּ֭רוּחוֹ שָׁמַ֣יִם שִׁפְרָ֑ה חֹֽלֲלָ֥ה יָ֝ד֗וֹ נָחָ֥שׁ בָּרִֽיחַ
Haydock's commentary
Heavens, with stars, &c., Psalm xxxii. 6., and Wisdom i. 7. God also sends winds to disperse the clouds, that the heavens may appear. (Calmet)
Artful, (obstetricante) "being the midwife." The least things are ruled by Providence. (Worthington)
Serpent; a constellation, lightning, the devil, or rather the leviathan, Isaias xxvii. 1. (Drusius) (Calmet)
Septuagint, "by his decree, he killed the apostate dragon." (Haydock)
But there is no need of having recourse to allegory. (Calmet)
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.