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Job 28:8

The children of the merchants have not trodden it, neither hath the lioness passed by it.

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The verse in its languages

Vulgate (Clementine)
Non calcaverunt eam filii institorum, nec pertransivit per eam leæna.
Septuagint (Swete)
καὶ οὐκ ἐπάτησαν αὐτὸν υἱοὶ ἀλαζόνων, οὐ παρῆλθεν ἐπ᾽ αὐτῆς λέων.
Hebrew (WLC)
לֹֽא הִדְרִיכֻ֥הוּ בְנֵי שָׁ֑חַץ לֹֽא עָדָ֖ה עָלָ֣יו שָֽׁחַל

Haydock's commentary

Merchants, who go the shortest road. (Haydock)

Hebrew, "of lions," which find their deans without asking for the path. (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.