Job 4:11
The tiger hath perished for want of prey, and the young lions are scattered abroad.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Tigris periit, eo quod non haberet prædam, et catuli leonis dissipati sunt.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- μυρμηκολέων ὤλετο παρὰ τὸ μὴ ἔχειν βοράν, σκύμνοι δὲ λεόντων ἔλιπον ἀλλήλους.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- לַ֭יִשׁ אֹבֵ֣ד מִבְּלִי טָ֑רֶף וּבְנֵ֥י לָ֝בִ֗יא יִתְפָּרָֽדוּ
Haydock's commentary
Tiger. Hebrew Layish, means also an "old lion." Septuagint murmekoleon, "ant-lion," which some have deemed fabulous, improperly. (Bochart, vi. 5.) (Ælian, xvii. 42.)
Eliphaz tacitly accuses Job of violence and pride. (Ven. Bede) (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.