Job 36:21
Beware thou turn not aside to iniquity: for this thou hast begun to follow after misery.
Challoner: For this thou hast begun to follow after miseryEliu charges Job, that notwithstanding his misery, he does not fear God as he ought: but in his judgment, falls into iniquity.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Cave ne declines ad iniquitatem : hanc enim cœpisti sequi post miseriam.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἀλλὰ φύλαξαι μὴ πράξῃς ἄδικα· ἐπὶ τοῦτον γὰρ ἐξείλω ἀπὸ πτωχείας.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- הִ֭שָּׁמֶר אַל תֵּ֣פֶן אֶל אָ֑וֶן כִּֽי עַל זֶ֝֗ה בָּחַ֥רְתָּ מֵעֹֽנִי
Haydock's commentary
Iniquity, or blaspheming, (chap. xxxiv. 37.; Menochius) and murmurs, to which alone thou hast given way since thy fall. (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.