Job 27:5
God forbid that I should judge you to be just: till I die I will not depart from my innocence.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Absit a me ut justos vos esse judicem : donec deficiam, non recedam ab innocentia mea.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- μή μοι εἴη δικαίους ὑμᾶς ἀποφῆναι ἕως ἂν ἀποθάνω, οὐ γὰρ ἀπαλλάξω μου τὴν ἀκακίαν·
- Hebrew (WLC)
- חָלִ֣ילָה לִּי֮ אִם אַצְדִּ֪יק אֶ֫תְכֶ֥ם עַד אֶגְוָ֑ע לֹא אָסִ֖יר תֻּמָּתִ֣י מִמֶּֽנִּי
Haydock's commentary
Till. Never will I abandon this path, (Haydock) nor will I yield to your reasons, (Calmet) or cease to defend myself. (Menochius)
It would have been contrary to justice and charity, (Haydock) as well as to truth, to confess a false crime. (Worthington)
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
Aphrahat Aphrahat: Select Demonstrations, Of Faith
16. Thus also Joshua the son of Nun divided Jordan by his faith, and the children of Israel crossed over as in the days of Moses. But know, my beloved, that this passage of the Jordan was three times laid open by its being divided. First through Joshua the Son of Nun, and secondly through Elijah, and then through Elisha. For the word of the Book makes known that over against this passage of Jericho, there Elijah was taken up to heaven; for when Elisha turned back from following him and divided the Jordan and passed over, the children of the Prophets of Jericho came out to meet Elisha and said: The spirit of Elijah rests upon Elisha . Furthermore when the people crossed over in the days of Joshua the son of Nun (it was there), for thus it is written: The people passed over, over against Jericho . …