Job 41:22
He shall make the deep sea to boil like a pot, and shall make it as when ointments boil.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Fervescere faciet quasi ollam profundum mare, et ponet quasi cum unguenta bulliunt.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἀναζεῖ τὴν ἄβυσσον ὥσπερ χαλκεῖον· ἥγηται δὲ τὴν θάλασσαν ὥσπερ ἐξάλιπτρον,
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Job 41:23
- יַרְתִּ֣יחַ כַּסִּ֣יר מְצוּלָ֑ה יָ֝֗ם יָשִׂ֥ים כַּמֶּרְקָחָֽה
Haydock's commentary
When. Hebrew, "a pot of ointment." This boils out very much. (Calmet)
The flesh of the crocodile has also the smell of musk; (Bochart) and Peter Martyr asserts, that Columbus found some in America, which plunged into the water, and left behind them the odour of musk or castor. When they are wounded, they give the same perfume to the sea, or rather to the waters, where they abide. The Hebrews style all deep rives and lakes, seas. (Calmet)
Crocodiles were kept in the lake Mœris, being adored and honoured as gods. (Herodotus ii. 69.)
Septuagint, "He deems the sea as a vase of ointment; (23) and the Tartarus of the abyss, like a prisoner." Theodotion adds, "He hath considered the abyss as a walk."
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.