Job 8:3
Doth God pervert judgment, or doth the Almighty overthrow that which is just?
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Numquid Deus supplantat judicium ? aut Omnipotens subvertit quod justum est ?
- Septuagint (Swete)
- μὴ ὁ κύριος ἀδικήσει κρίνων; ἢ ὁ τὰ πάντα ποιήσας ταράξει τὸ δίκαιον;
- Hebrew (WLC)
- הַ֭אֵל יְעַוֵּ֣ת מִשְׁפָּ֑ט וְאִם שַׁ֝דַּ֗י יְעַוֵּֽת צֶֽדֶק
Haydock's commentary
Just. He begins with the same principle as Eliphaz, which nobody denied. But he does not reflect, that God may cause even the just to be afflicted, for their trial and improvement.
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.