Job 39:21
He breaketh up the earth with his hoof, he pranceth boldly, he goeth forward to meet armed men.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Terram ungula fodit ; exultat audacter : in occursum pergit armatis.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἀνορύσσων ἐν πεδίῳ γαυριᾷ, ἐκπορεύεται δὲ εἰς πεδίον ἐν ἰσχύι·
- Hebrew (WLC)
- יַחְפְּר֣וּ בָ֭עֵמֶק וְיָשִׂ֣ישׂ בְּכֹ֑חַ יֵ֝צֵ֗א לִקְרַאת נָֽשֶׁק
Haydock's commentary
Hoof. Ploughing, or rather prancing, through impatience. (Calmet)
Boldly. Hebrew, "he exults in his strength," being sensible of glory and commendation. (Calmet)
Non dubie intellectum adhortationis et gloriæ fatentur. (Pliny vii. 43.)
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.