Job 3:9
Let the stars be darkened with the mist thereof: let it expect light and not see it, nor the rising of the dawning of the day:
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Obtenebrentur stellæ caligine ejus ; expectet lucem, et non videat, nec ortum surgentis auroræ.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- σκοτωθείη τὰ ἄστρα τῆς νυκτὸς ἐκείνης· ὑπομείναι, καὶ εἰς φωτισμὸν μὴ ἔλθοι, καὶ μὴ ἴδοι ἑωσφόρον ἀνατέλλοντα.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- יֶחְשְׁכוּ֮ כּוֹכְבֵ֪י נִ֫שְׁפּ֥וֹ יְקַו לְא֥וֹר וָאַ֑יִן וְאַל יִ֝רְאֶ֗ה בְּעַפְעַפֵּי שָֽׁחַר
The Fathers on this verse
St Gregory Nazianzen The Fifth Theological Oration. On the Holy Spirit
XXVIII. This, then, is my position with regard to these things, and I hope it may be always my position, and that of whosoever is dear to me; to worship God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost, Three Persons, One Godhead, undivided in honour and glory and substance and kingdom, as one of our own inspired philosophers not long departed shewed. Let him not see the rising of the Morning Star, as Scripture saith, nor the glory of its brightness, who is otherwise minded, or who follows the temper of the times, at one time being of one mind and of another at another time, and thinking unsoundly in the highest matters. For if He is not to be worshipped, how can He deify me by Baptism? but if He is to be worshipped, surely He is an Object of adoration, and if an Object of adoration He must be God; the one is linked to the other, a truly golden and saving chain. …