Job 9:13
God, whose wrath no man can resist, and under whom they stoop that bear up the world.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Deus, cujus iræ nemo resistere potest, et sub quo curvantur qui portant orbem.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- αὐτὸς γὰρ ἀπέστραπται ὀργήν, ὑπ᾽ αὐτοῦ ἐκάμφθησαν κήτη τὰ ὑπ᾽ οὐρανόν.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- אֱ֭לוֹהַּ לֹא יָשִׁ֣יב אַפּ֑וֹ תחתו שָׁ֝חֲח֗וּ עֹ֣זְרֵי רָֽהַב
Haydock's commentary
God. Protestants, "If God will not withdraw his anger, the proud helpers do stoop under him." Septuagint, "For he is not turned aside by wrath;" (or Roman edition) "God, whose anger cannot be averted," (Haydock) unless we repent: (Calmet) "under him the whales below heaven bend." (Haydock)
Perhaps they may have had some notions, like the Rabbins, respecting Leviathan; and St. Jerome may have alluded to the fable of the giants placed under mountains; (Virgil, Æneid iii., and ix.; Calmet) or to Atalas propping the skies. (Haydock)
World. Great heroes, (Calmet) Kings, (Pineda) angels, (Menochius) who move the spheres, (Worthington) or devils, Ephesians vi. 12. (Cajetan)
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.