Job 40:18
Behold, he will drink up a river, and not wonder: and he trusteth that the Jordan may run into his mouth.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Ecce absorbebit fluvium, et non mirabitur, et habet fiduciam quod influat Jordanis in os ejus.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἐὰν γένηται πλήμμυρα, οὐ μὴ αἰσθηθῇ, πέποιθεν ὅτι προσκρούσει ὁ Ἰορδάνης εἰς τὸ στόμα αὐτοῦ·
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Job 40:23
- הֵ֤ן יַעֲשֹׁ֣ק נָ֭הָר לֹ֣א יַחְפּ֑וֹז יִבְטַ֓ח כִּֽי יָגִ֖יחַ יַרְדֵּ֣ן אֶל פִּֽיהוּ
Haydock's commentary
Wonder. Hebrew, "make haste," taking time to render it muddy. (Ælian xiv. 44.)
It can drink a great deal at once, and then abstain for a week. (Calmet)
Run. Hebrew, "he may draw." Septuagint, "may knock at his mouth," (Haydock) in vain, (Calmet) as long as it can breathe by holding by holding its trunk out of the water. (Aristotle ix. 46.)
Theo.[Theodotion?] in the Septuagint, "If there should be an inundation, it shall not perceive. It confideth that, or when, the Jordan shall knock at its mouth. He shall take it by its eye; laying snares, he shall bore [its] nose." (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.
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St Cyril of Jerusalem On Baptism
11. Jesus sanctified Baptism by being Himself baptized. If the Son of God was baptized, what godly man is he that despiseth Baptism? But He was baptized not that He might receive remission of sins, for He was sinless; but being sinless, He was baptized, that He might give to them that are baptized a divine and excellent grace. For since the children are partakers of flesh and blood, He also Himself likewise partook of the same , that having been made partakers of His presence in the flesh we might be made partakers also of His Divine grace: thus Jesus was baptized, that thereby we again by our participation might receive both salvation and honour. According to Job, there was in the waters the dragon that draweth up Jordan into his mouth . …