Job 39:17
For God hath deprived her of wisdom, neither hath he given her understanding.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Privavit enim eam Deus sapientia, nec dedit illi intelligentiam.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ὅτι κατεσιώπησεν αὐτῇ ὁ θεὸς σοφίαν, καὶ οὐκ ἐμέρισεν αὐτῇ ἐν τῇ συνέσει.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- כִּֽי הִשָּׁ֣הּ אֱל֣וֹהַּ חָכְמָ֑ה וְלֹא חָ֥לַק לָ֝֗הּ בַּבִּינָֽה
Haydock's commentary
Understanding. This bird has a head disproportionately small; insomuch, that Heliogabalus served up the brains of 600 at one supper. It greedily eats iron, &c., which may help its digestion, as sand does that of other birds. (Calmet)
When it is hunted, it hides its head only, as if this would be a sufficient defence, (Pliny, [Natural History?] x. 1.) and is taken alive by a man, clothed in the skin of an ostrich, who moves the head with his hand. (Strabo xvi.)
All which proves its stupidity. (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.