Job 27:20
Poverty like water shall take hold on him, a tempest shall oppress him in the night.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Apprehendet eum quasi aqua inopia : nocte opprimet eum tempestas.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- συνήντησαν αὐτῷ ὥσπερ ὕδωρ αἱ ὀδύναι, νυκτὶ δὲ ὑφείλατο αὐτὸν γνόφος·
- Hebrew (WLC)
- תַּשִּׂיגֵ֣הוּ כַ֭מַּיִם בַּלָּה֑וֹת לַ֝֗יְלָה גְּנָבַ֥תּוּ סוּפָֽה
Haydock's commentary
Night. Darkness often denotes disgrace and misery.
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.