Job 9:14
What am I then, that I should answer him, and have words with him?
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Quantus ergo sum ego, ut respondeam ei, et loquar verbis meis cum eo ?
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἐὰν δέ μου ὑπακούσεται, ἦ διακρινεῖ τὰ ῥήματά μου.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- אַ֭ף כִּֽי אָנֹכִ֣י אֶֽעֱנֶ֑נּוּ אֶבְחֲרָ֖ה דְבָרַ֣י עִמּֽוֹ
Haydock's commentary
What? Hebrew, "Much less shall I answer him, choosing even my words with him." (Haydock)
This is the conclusion from the display of God's power. (Calmet)
No eloquence will persuade him. (Haydock)
Though not conscious of any sin, Job will not justify himself (1 Corinthians iv.; Worthington) before God. (Haydock)
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.