Job 35:5
Look up to heaven and see, and behold the sky, that it is higher than thee.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Suspice cælum, et intuere : et contemplare æthera quod altior te sit.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἀνάβλεψον εἰς τὸν οὐρανὸν καὶ ἴδε, κατάμαθε δὲ νέφη ὡς ὑψηλὰ ἀπὸ σοῦ.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- הַבֵּ֣ט שָׁמַ֣יִם וּרְאֵ֑ה וְשׁ֥וּר שְׁ֝חָקִ֗ים גָּבְה֥וּ מִמֶּֽךָּ
Haydock's commentary
Thee. Thy sin cannot hurt, nor thy virtue add any thing to God. He is not therefore actuated by resentment, or jealousy, but by justice. (Calmet)
He revenges the injury done by the sinner to himself, ver. 8. (St. Augustine, Conf. iii. 8.)
The inference is therefore wrong, (Calmet) that God will not regard the sins or punishment of men, because he thence derives no profit, ver. 3. (Haydock)
The strong sentences of Eliu agree not (or are ill-applied) to the blessed Job. (St. Gregory xxvi. 7.) (Worthington)
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.