Job 3:21
That look for death, and it cometh not, as they that dig for a treasure:
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- qui expectant mortem, et non venit, quasi effodientes thesaurum ;
- Septuagint (Swete)
- οἳ ὀμείρονται τοῦ θανάτου καὶ οὐ τυγχάνουσιν, ἀνορύσσοντες ὥσπερ θησαυρούς·
- Hebrew (WLC)
- הַֽמְחַכִּ֣ים לַמָּ֣וֶת וְאֵינֶ֑נּוּ וַֽ֝יַּחְפְּרֻ֗הוּ מִמַּטְמוֹנִֽים
Haydock's commentary
Not. They feel the same eagerness for death as those who seek for a treasure; (Calmet) and when death is at hand, they rejoice no less than those who discover a grave, in which they hope to find some riches, ver. 15, 22.
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.