Job 28:9
He hath stretched forth his hand to the flint, he hath overturned mountains from the roots.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Ad silicem extendit manum suam : subvertit a radicibus montes.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἐν ἀκροτόμῳ ἐξέτεινεν χεῖρα αὐτοῦ, κατέστρεψεν δὲ ἐκ ῥιζῶν ὄρη·
- Hebrew (WLC)
- בַּֽ֭חַלָּמִישׁ שָׁלַ֣ח יָד֑וֹ הָפַ֖ךְ מִשֹּׁ֣רֶשׁ הָרִֽים
Haydock's commentary
Roots, in quest of precious metals. (Menochius)
"Imus in viscera terræ et in sede Marium opes quærimus." (Pliny, [Natural History?] xxxiii. pref.)
Effodiuntur opes, irritamenta malorum. (Ovid, Met. i.)
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.