Job 26:5
Behold the giants groan under the waters, and they that dwell with them.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Ecce gigantes gemunt sub aquis, et qui habitant cum eis.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- μὴ γίγαντες μαιωθήσονται ὑποκάτωθεν ὕδατος καὶ τῶν γειτόνων αὐτοῦ;
- Hebrew (WLC)
- הָרְפָאִ֥ים יְחוֹלָ֑לוּ מִתַּ֥חַת מַ֝֗יִם וְשֹׁכְנֵיהֶֽם
Haydock's commentary
With them. The less and greater fishes, (Menochius) or rather the giants and others who were buried in the waters of the deluge, and are confined in the dungeons of hell. The poets speak in the same manner.
"Hic genus antiquum terræ, Titania pubes,
Fulmine dejecti fundo voluntur in imo.
Aliis sub gurgite vasto,
Infectum eluitur scelus aut exuritur igni." (Virgil, Æneid vi.)
Homer (Iliad viii.) and Hesiod (Theog.) place the giants at the extremity of the earth, in the utmost darkness. See also Proverbs ix. 18., and Isaias xiv. 9. (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.
The Fathers on this verse
St Gregory the Great Register of the Epistles of St. Gregory the Great, To Cyriacus, Bishop
Moreover I find you in your epistles seeking with great longing after serenity of mind, and panting for tranquillity of thought apart from perturbation. But I know not in what manner your Fraternity can attain to this. For one who has undertaken the pilotage of a ship must needs watch all the more as he further recedes from shore, so as sometimes to foresee from signs the coming storms; sometimes, when they come, either, if they are small, to ride over them in a straight course, or, if they swell violently, to avoid them as they rush on by steering sideways; and often to watch alone when all who are without charge of the ship are at rest. How, moreover, having undertaken the burden of pastoral charge, can you have serenity of thought, seeing that it is written, Behold giants groan under the waters ( Job xxvi. 5 )? For, according to the words of John, The waters are peoples ( Rev. xvii. …