Job 28:19
The topaz of Ethiopia shall not be equal to it, neither shall it be compared to the cleanest dyeing.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Non adæquabitur ei topazius de Æthiopia, nec tincturæ mundissimæ componetur.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- οὐκ ἰσωθήσεται αὐτῇ τοπάζιον Αἰθιοπίας, χρυσίῳ καθαρῷ οὐ συνβασταχθήσεται.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- לֹֽא יַ֭עַרְכֶנָּה פִּטְדַת כּ֑וּשׁ בְּכֶ֥תֶם טָ֝ה֗וֹר לֹ֣א תְסֻלֶּֽה
Haydock's commentary
Ethiopia, on the east of the Red Sea. Pliny ([Natural History?] vi. 29.) mentions the isle of Chuthis, which was also famous for the topaz.
Dying. Hebrew cethem, (Haydock) which we have observed relates to gold, ver. 16.
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.