Job 28:5
The land, out of which bread grew in its place, hath been overturned with fire.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Terra de qua oriebatur panis, in loco suo igni subversa est.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- γῆ, ἐξ αὐτῆς ἐξελεύσεται ἄρτος, ὑποκάτω αὐτῆς ἐστράφη ὡσεὶ πῦρ.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- אֶ֗רֶץ מִמֶּ֥נָּה יֵֽצֵא לָ֑חֶם וְ֝תַחְתֶּ֗יהָ נֶהְפַּ֥ךְ כְּמוֹ אֵֽשׁ
Haydock's commentary
In its, &c. Hebrew and Septuagint, "and under it is turned up as it were fire," which lies in it. (Haydock)
Fire, like Sodom; to which event Job alludes, chap. xxii. 20. (Calmet)
The furnaces to melt various metals have taken the place of corn, and occupy the land. (Menochius)
Men have extracted bitumen, &c., even from the lake of Sodom. (Pliny, [Natural History?] vii. 15.)
Nothing escapes them. (Calmet)
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.