Job 26:9
He withholdeth the face of his throne, and spreadeth his cloud over it.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Qui tenet vultum solii sui, et expandit super illud nebulam suam.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ὁ κρατῶν πρόσωπον θρόνου, ἐκπετάζων ἐπ᾽ αὐτὸν νέφος αὐτοῦ·
- Hebrew (WLC)
- מְאַחֵ֥ז פְּנֵי כִסֵּ֑ה פַּרְשֵׁ֖ז עָלָ֣יו עֲנָנֽוֹ
Haydock's commentary
Over it. The firmament, with all its beauty, is but like a cloud, to conceal from our feeble eyes the splendor of God's throne.
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.