Job 40:25
Shall friends cut him in pieces, shall merchants divide him?
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Concident eum amici ? divident illum negotiatores ?
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἐνσιτοῦνται δὲ ἐν αὐτῷ ἔθνη, μεριτεύονται δὲ αὐτὸν Φοινίκων ἔθνη;
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Job 40:30
- יִכְר֣וּ עָ֭לָיו חַבָּרִ֑ים יֶ֝חֱצ֗וּהוּ בֵּ֣ין כְּֽנַעֲנִֽים
Haydock's commentary
Friends. Hebrew also, (Haydock) "enchanters." (Calmet)
Frigidus in pratis cantando rumpitur anguis. (Virgil, Ec. viii.)
Septuagint, "the nations."
Merchants. Septuagint, "the generation of the Phœnicians (Hebrew) of Chanaan, (Haydock) famous for merchandise, (Calmet) insomuch that the name is used for any merchant. (Haydock)
Will they salt the crocodile for sale? (Calmet)
Its flesh was much liked. (Herodotus, &c.)
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.