Job 7:12
Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou hast enclosed me in a prison?
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Numquid mare ego sum, aut cetus, quia circumdedisti me carcere ?
- Septuagint (Swete)
- πότερον θάλασσά εἰμι ἢ δράκων ὅτι κατέταξας ἐπ᾽ ἐμὲ φυλακήν;
- Hebrew (WLC)
- הֲֽיָם אָ֭נִי אִם תַּנִּ֑ין כִּֽי תָשִׂ֖ים עָלַ֣י מִשְׁמָֽר
Haydock's commentary
Sea. Ungovernable and malicious. Some of the ancients looked upon the sea as a huge animal, whose breathing caused the tides. (Strabo i.; Solin xxxii.)
They represented its fury as proverbial. "Fire, the sea, and woman are three evils;" and they call the most savage people sons of Neptune. (Agel. xv. 21.)
Am I so violent as to require such barriers? Am I capacious, or strong enough to bear such treatment? (Calmet)
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.