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Job 37:20

Who shall tell him the things I speak? even if a man shall speak, he shall be swallowed up.

Challoner: He shall be swallowed upAll that man can say when he speaks of God, is so little and inconsiderable in comparison with the subject, that man is lost, and as it were swallowed up in so immense an ocean.

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The verse in its languages

Vulgate (Clementine): Quis narrabit ei quæ loquor ? etiam si locutus fuerit homo, devorabitur.
Septuagint (Swete): μὴ βίβλος ἢ γραμματεύς μοι παρέστηκεν, ἵνα ἄνθρωπον ἑστηκὼς κατασιωπήσω;
Hebrew (WLC): הַֽיְסֻפַּר ל֭וֹ כִּ֣י אֲדַבֵּ֑ר אִֽם אָ֥מַר אִ֝֗ישׁ כִּ֣י יְבֻלָּֽע

Haydock's commentary

He shall be swallowed up. All that man can say, when he speaks of God, is so little and inconsiderable in comparison with the subject, that man is lost, and as it were swallowed up in so immense an ocean. (Challoner)

The man who should dare to mention what I could reprehend in God's works, would soon be overwhelmed with majesty. (Calmet)

Alphonsus IX, king of Leon, (the year of our Lord 1252) surnamed "the wise and the astronomer," said "he could have given some good advice respecting the motions of the stars, if he had been consulted by God;" meaning to ridicule some vain systems of philosophers, then in vogue. (Dict. 1774.) (Haydock)

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.