Job 7:15
So that my soul rather chooseth hanging, and my bones death.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Quam ob rem elegit suspendium anima mea, et mortem ossa mea.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἀπαλλάξεις ἀπὸ πνεύματός μου τὴν ψυχήν μου, ἀπὸ δὲ θανάτου τὰ ὀστᾶ μου.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַתִּבְחַ֣ר מַחֲנָ֣ק נַפְשִׁ֑י מָ֝֗וֶת מֵֽעַצְמוֹתָֽי
Haydock's commentary
Hanging. Protestants, "strangling and death, rather than my life," or Marginal note, "bones." (Haydock)
Any species of Death would be preferable to this misery. (Calmet)
Who would not entertain the same sentiments, if the fear of worse in the other world did not withhold him? But Job had reason to hope that his sorrows would end with his life. (Haydock)
It is thought that he was dreadfully tempted to despair. (Calmet)
Yet he resisted manfully, and overcame all attempts of the wicked one.
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.
The Fathers on this verse
St Augustine A Treatise on the Soul and its Origin, He Passes on to the Second Question About the Soul, Whether It is Called Spirit
It now remains for me to show how it is that while the designation spirit is rightly predicated of a part of the soul, not the whole of it, even as the apostle says, “Your whole spirit, and soul, and body;” or, according to the much more expressive statement in the Book of Job, “Thou wilt separate my soul from my spirit,”, yet the whole soul is also called by this name; although this question seems to be much more a question of names than of things. …