Job 9:16
And if he should hear me when I call, I should not believe that he had heard my voice.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Et cum invocantem exaudierit me, non credo quod audierit vocem meam.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἐάν τε καλέσω καὶ μὴ ὑπακούσῃ, οὐ πιστεύω ὅτι εἰσακήκοέν μου.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- אִם קָרָ֥אתִי וַֽיַּעֲנֵ֑נִי לֹֽא אַ֝אֲמִ֗ין כִּֽי יַאֲזִ֥ין קוֹלִֽי
Haydock's commentary
Voice. So much am I beneath his notice. How unjust were the aspersions of Job's friends, who accused him of presumption and blasphemy! (Calmet)
No one ever spoke with greater humility (Haydock) and respect of God's absolute dominion. (Calmet)
He will attribute nothing to his own prayers, as he is still in the dark. (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.
The Fathers on this verse
St Jerome Against the Pelagians, Book II
ix. 15, 16 . If I were righteous, he would not hear me.