Job 34:17
Can he be healed that loveth not judgment? and how dost thou so far condemn him that is just?
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- numquid qui non amat judicium sanari potest ? et quomodo tu eum qui justus est in tantum condemnas ?
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἴδε σὺ τὸν μισοῦντα ἄνομα καὶ τὸν ὀλλύντα τοὺς πονηρούς, ὄντα αἰώνιον δίκαιον.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- הַאַ֬ף שׂוֹנֵ֣א מִשְׁפָּ֣ט יַחֲב֑וֹשׁ וְאִם צַדִּ֖יק כַּבִּ֣יר תַּרְשִֽׁיעַ
Haydock's commentary
Judgment. How can we hope for redress from God, while he condemns his conduct? (Menochius)
How can we bring Job to a sense of his duty, since he entertains such perverse notions? Hebrew, "Shall he hold dominion, who hates justice?" If God be unjust, does he deserve our adoration? (Calmet) or, "ought not the person to be put in prison, who resists judgment?" (Grotius) "If thou dost not think that He who hates crimes, and destroys the impious, is eternal and just?" (Septuagint) (Haydock)
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.