Job 4:7
Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished being innocent? or when were the just destroyed?
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Recordare, obsecro te, quis umquam innocens periit ? aut quando recti deleti sunt ?
- Septuagint (Swete)
- μνήσθητι οὖν τίς καθαρὸς ὢν ἀπώλετο, ἢ πότε ἀληθινοὶ ὁλόριζοι ἀπώλοντο;
- Hebrew (WLC)
- זְכָר נָ֗א מִ֤י ה֣וּא נָקִ֣י אָבָ֑ד וְ֝אֵיפֹ֗ה יְשָׁרִ֥ים נִכְחָֽדוּ
Haydock's commentary
Destroyed? They never were eternally. But Abel and many other just persons, have been exposed to tribulation in this world, (Worthington) for their greater improvement. Yet Eliphaz falsely concludes from the sufferings of Job, that he must have been a criminal. (Calmet)
If any one should now hold the same opinion, we should deem him very ignorant or foolish. But we have observed, (Preface) that this was not so obvious at that time. Cain, the giants, Her, Onan, Sodom, &c., had been made examples of divine vengeance. But a new order of things was now commencing. (Houbigant)
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.