Job 34:20
They shall suddenly die, and the people shall be troubled at midnight, and they shall pass, and take away the violent without hand.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Subito morientur, et in media nocte turbabuntur populi : et pertransibunt, et auferent violentum absque manu.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- κενὰ δὲ αὐτοῖς ἀποβήσεται τὸ κεκραγέναι καὶ δεῖσθαι ἀνδρός· ἐχρήσαντο γὰρ παρανόμως, ἐκκλινομένων ἀδυνάτων.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- רֶ֤גַע יָמֻתוּ֮ וַחֲצ֪וֹת לָ֥יְלָה יְגֹעֲשׁ֣וּ עָ֣ם וְיַעֲבֹ֑רוּ וְיָסִ֥ירוּ אַ֝בִּ֗יר לֹ֣א בְיָֽד
Haydock's commentary
They, the wicked, whatever may be their station in life. (Haydock)
God takes off the tyrant (Calmet) when he least expects it, as well as the poor. (Haydock)
Troubled, or make an insurrection. (Calmet)
This often proves the ruin of tyrants. (Haydock)
Hand, by the destroying angel. (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.