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Job 5:8

Wherefore I will pray to the Lord, and address my speech to God:

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The verse in its languages

Vulgate (Clementine)
Quam ob rem ego deprecabor Dominum, et ad Deum ponam eloquium meum :
Septuagint (Swete)
οὐ μὴν δὲ ἀλλὰ ἐγὼ δεηθήσομαι Κυρίου, Κύριον δὲ τὸν πάντων δεσπότην ἐπικαλέσομαι,
Hebrew (WLC)
אוּלָ֗ם אֲ֭נִי אֶדְרֹ֣שׁ אֶל אֵ֑ל וְאֶל אֱ֝לֹהִ֗ים אָשִׂ֥ים דִּבְרָתִֽי

Haydock's commentary

I will, or if I were in your place, I would sue for pardon. (Calmet)

Protestants, "I would seek unto God," (Haydock) under affliction. (Menochius)

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.