Job 35:16
Therefore Job openeth his mouth in vain, and multiplieth words without knowledge.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Ergo Job frustra aperit os suum, et absque scientia verba multiplicat.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ Ἰὼβ ματαίως ἀνοίγει τὸ στόμα αὐτοῦ, ἐν ἀγνωσίᾳ ῥήματα βαρύνει.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וְ֭אִיּוֹב הֶ֣בֶל יִפְצֶה פִּ֑יהוּ בִּבְלִי דַ֝֗עַת מִלִּ֥ין יַכְבִּֽר
Haydock's commentary
Knowledge. I have shewn that God punishes or rewards according to our deserts, and is not indifferent about our sins. If Job have not experienced the divine bounty, it is because he has not deserved it. (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.