Job 28:13
Man knoweth not the price thereof, neither is it found in the land of them that live in delights.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Nescit homo pretium ejus, nec invenitur in terra suaviter viventium.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- οὐκ οἶδεν βροτὸς ὁδὸν αὐτῆς, οὐδὲ μὴν εὑρέθη ἐν ἀνθρώποις.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- לֹא יָדַ֣ע אֱנ֣וֹשׁ עֶרְכָּ֑הּ וְלֹ֥א תִ֝מָּצֵ֗א בְּאֶ֣רֶץ הַֽחַיִּֽים
Haydock's commentary
Price. It has none, like other precious things, Baruch iii. 15.
In delights is not expressed in Hebrew or Septuagint. (Calmet)
But to live in misery is hardly to be accounted living, (Haydock) and the addition restrains the proposition, as some men possess this treasure, though not those who take no pains (Calmet) to mortify corrupt nature. (Haydock)
Chaldean, "it is not found in the land of the proud, whose life is spent in sin." (Calmet)
True wisdom is found, not in natural, but in supernatural, things. (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.