Job 34:6
For in judging me there is a lie: my arrow is violent without any sin.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- In judicando enim me mendacium est : violenta sagitta mea absque ullo peccato.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἐψεύσατο δὲ τῷ κρίματί μου· βίαιον τὸ βέλος μου ἄνευ ἀδικίας.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- עַל מִשְׁפָּטִ֥י אֲכַזֵּ֑ב אָנ֖וּשׁ חִצִּ֣י בְלִי פָֽשַׁע
Haydock's commentary
There. Septuagint, "he has been deceived;" epseusato. Hebrew, "I will convict my judge of lying;" or (Calmet) Protestants, "should I lie against my right?" (Haydock)
Job, in the excess of grief, had expressed himself forcibly, chap. xix. 6., and xxiii. 7. But great deductions must be made from such hyperboles; and he had frequently praised the mercy and justice of God, and his just punishment of the wicked. He had indeed excepted himself from the number; and Eliu ought to have proved that he was wrong in this respect. But he seems to have all along evaded or mistaken the point under dispute. (Calmet)
Arrow, which pierces me. (Haydock)
The deferring judgment was not a subversion of it, as Eliu would argue, chap. xxvii. 2. (Worthington)
Haydock wrote amid the controversies of his day. The Church teaches that those born into communities separated from her cannot be charged with the sin of separation, and embraces them as brothers (CCC 818).
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.