Job 41:1
I will not stir him up, like one that is cruel: for who can resist my countenance?
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Non quasi crudelis suscitabo eum : quis enim resistere potest vultui meo ?
- Septuagint (Swete)
- Verse numbering differs here, so nothing is shown rather than the wrong verse.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Job 41:2
- לֹֽא אַ֭כְזָר כִּ֣י יְעוּרֶ֑נּוּ וּמִ֥י ה֝֗וּא לְפָנַ֥י יִתְיַצָּֽב
Haydock's commentary
I. Hebrew, "None is so fierce that dare stir it up." (Haydock)
Cruel, or rash, like those to Tentyra, chap. iii. 8. (Calmet)
This monster is terrible to those that flee, while it retires from the pursuer.
But only these people dare to attack it. (Pliny, [Natural History?] viii. 25.)
"I will not ask the crocodile to revenge me of my enemies," as some might do in a rage, through impotence. (Haydock) (Sanchez) (Menochius)
Countenance, even though they might overcome the crocodile. God is here speaking. Septuagint, "Dost thou not fear, since it is ready for thee, (Grabe substitutes, "me,") for who will resist me?" or, "who shall stand against me, and live? All," &c., ver. 2. (Haydock)
God ruleth not with cruelty, like a tyrant, but with justice, ease, and power. (Worthington)
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.