Job 8:11
Can the rush be green without moisture? or a sedge-bush grow without water?
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Numquid vivere potest scirpus absque humore ? aut crescere carectum sine aqua ?
- Septuagint (Swete)
- μὴ θάλλει πάπυρος ἄνευ ὕδατος; ἢ ὑψωθήσεται βούτομον ἄνευ πότου;
- Hebrew (WLC)
- הֲיִֽגְאֶה גֹּ֭מֶא בְּלֹ֣א בִצָּ֑ה יִשְׂגֶּה אָ֥חוּ בְלִי מָֽיִם
Haydock's commentary
Sedge-bush, or flag. Hebrew achu; so called, because from one root many brothers (as it were) spring. Septuagint style it Boutomon, as it was usually "cut for oxen," Genesis xli. 2. (Parkhurst) (Haydock)
As plants die without suction, so do those who depart from God. (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.