Job 8:12
When it is yet in flower, and is not plucked up with the hand, it withereth before all herbs.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Cum adhuc sit in flore, nec carpatur manu, ante omnes herbas arescit.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἔτι ὂν ἐπὶ ῥίζης, καὶ οὐ μὴ θερισθῇ· πρὸ τοῦ πιεῖν πᾶσα βοτάνη οὐχὶ ξηραίνεται;
- Hebrew (WLC)
- עֹדֶ֣נּוּ בְ֭אִבּוֹ לֹ֣א יִקָּטֵ֑ף וְלִפְנֵ֖י כָל חָצִ֣יר יִיבָֽשׁ
Haydock's commentary
Herbs, for want of moisture. (Calmet)
Sic transit gloria mundi. (Haydock)
The prophets often compare the prosperity of the wicked to grass, (Psalm xxxvi. 2., and James i. 10.) and Baldad ranks Job with them.
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.