Job 7:2
As a servant longeth for the shade, as the hireling looketh for the end of his work;
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Sicut servus desiderat umbram, et sicut mercenarius præstolatur finem operis sui,
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἢ ὥσπερ θεράπων δεδοικὼς τὸν κύριον αὐτοῦ καὶ τετευχὼς σκιᾶς, ἢ ὥσπερ μισθωτὸς ἀναμένων τὸν μισθὸν αὐτοῦ;
- Hebrew (WLC)
- כְּעֶ֥בֶד יִשְׁאַף צֵ֑ל וּ֝כְשָׂכִ֗יר יְקַוֶּ֥ה פָעֳלֽוֹ
The Fathers on this verse
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm CXLIII
11. “Deliver me from mine enemies, O Lord, for unto Thee have I fled for refuge” ( ver. 9 ). I who once fled from Thee, now flee to Thee. For Adam fled from the Face of God, and hid himself among the trees of Paradise, so that of him was said in the Book of Job, “As a servant that fleeth from his Lord, and findeth a shadow.” He fled from the Face of his Lord, and found a shadow. Woe to him, if he continue in the shade, lest it be said afterward, “All things are passed away like a shadow.” The rulers of this world, of this darkness, the rulers of the wicked; against these ye wrestle. Great is your conflict, not to see your enemies, and yet to conquer. …