Job 38:33
Dost thou know the order of heaven, and canst thou set down the reason thereof on the earth?
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Numquid nosti ordinem cæli, et pones rationem ejus in terra ?
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἐπίστασαι δὲ τροπὰς οὐρανοῦ ἢ τὰ ὑπ᾽ οὐρανὸν ὁμοθυμαδὸν γινόμενα;
- Hebrew (WLC)
- הֲ֭יָדַעְתָּ חֻקּ֣וֹת שָׁמָ֑יִם אִם תָּשִׂ֖ים מִשְׁטָר֣וֹ בָאָֽרֶץ
Haydock's commentary
Reason. Hebrew, "dominion," (Haydock) or influence upon the earth. Mathematicians thought they had discovered these laws, and the number of the stars; but daily experience evinces their error. (Menochius)
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.