Job 26:4
Whom hast thou desired to teach? was it not him that made life?
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Quem docere voluisti ? nonne eum qui fecit spiramentum ?
- Septuagint (Swete)
- τίνι ἀνήγγειλας ῥήματα; πνοὴ δὲ τίνος ἐστὶν ἡ ἐξελθοῦσα ἐκ σοῦ;
- Hebrew (WLC)
- אֶת מִ֭י הִגַּ֣דְתָּ מִלִּ֑ין וְנִשְׁמַת מִ֝י יָצְאָ֥ה מִמֶּֽךָּ
Haydock's commentary
Life. Septuagint also seem to understand this of God. (Calmet)
Job does not blame his friends for undertaking to approve the ways of Providence, but for condemning himself (St. Chrysostom) rashly, (Haydock) and, with an air of haughtiness, endeavouring to restrain him from pleading his cause before the divine tribunal. (Menochius)
Hebrew, "Whose spirit came from thee?" (Protestants) (Haydock) Did I receive my life, or do I seek advice from thee? (Calmet)
God stood in no need of Baldad's wisdom (Worthington) no more than Job. (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.