Job 39:16
She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers, she hath laboured in vain, no fear constraining her.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Duratur ad filios suos, quasi non sint sui : frustra laboravit, nullo timore cogente.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἀπεσκλήρυνεν τὰ τέκνα ἑαυτῆς, ὥστε μὴ ἑαυτήν· εἰς κενὸν ἐκοπίασεν ἄνευ φόβου.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- הִקְשִׁ֣יחַ בָּנֶ֣יהָ לְּלֹא לָ֑הּ לְרִ֖יק יְגִיעָ֣הּ בְּלִי פָֽחַד
Haydock's commentary
Ones, or eggs which she leaves. (Calmet)
Ælian (xiv. 6.) asserts that this bird will expose her own life to defend her young. Yet the neglect of her eggs, will suffice to make her deemed cruel, Lamentations iv. 3. (Haydock)
Her. Other birds leave their nests through fear; (Calmet) but this, after sitting a while, will depart carelessly, (Haydock) and if she meet with other eggs on her road, will take to them, thus rendering her own useless. (Bochart)
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.
The Fathers on this verse
St Gregory Nazianzen The Oration on Holy Baptism
XL. And what of the loins, or reins, for we must not pass these over? Let the purification take hold of these also. Let our loins be girded about and kept in check by conti nence, as the Law bade Israel of old when partaking of the Passover. For none comes out of Egypt purely, or escapes the Destroyer, except he who has disciplined these. And let the reins be changed by that good conversion by which they transfer all the affections to God, so that they can say, Lord, all my desire is before Thee, and the day of man have I not desired; for you must be a man of desires, but they must be those of the spirit. For thus you would destroy the dragon that carries the greater part of his strength upon his navel and his loins, by slaying the power that comes to him from these. …