Job 4:12
Now there was a word spoken to me in private, and my ears by stealth as it were received the veins of its whisper.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Porro ad me dictum est verbum absconditum, et quasi furtive suscepit auris mea venas susurri ejus.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- εἰ δέ τι ῥῆμα ἀληθινὸν ἐγεγόνει ἐν λόγοις σου, ⸆ οὐθὲν ἄν σοι τούτων κακὸν ἀπήντησεν. πότερον οὐ δέξεταί μου τὸ οὖς ἐξαίσια παρ᾽ αὐτοῦ;
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וְ֭אֵלַי דָּבָ֣ר יְגֻנָּ֑ב וַתִּקַּ֥ח אָ֝זְנִ֗י שֵׁ֣מֶץ מֶֽנְהֽוּ
Haydock's commentary
Private. Heretics pretend such obscure visions, rather to get credit than to edify others. (St. Gregory, v. 18.) (Worthington)
Many suppose that Eliphaz was guilty of feigning: but the greatest part think that he had truly seen a vision, but did not draw the proper conclusions from it. (Calmet)
Protestants, "Now a thing was secretly brought to me, and mine ear received a little thereof." (Haydock)
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.