Job 9:25
My days have been swifter than a post: they have fled away and have not seen good.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Dies mei velociores fuerunt cursore ; fugerunt, et non viderunt bonum.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ὁ δὲ βίος μού ἐστιν ἐλαφρώτερος δρομέως· ἀπέδρασαν, καὶ οὐκ εἴδοσαν.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וְיָמַ֣י קַ֭לּוּ מִנִּי רָ֑ץ בָּֽ֝רְח֗וּ לֹא רָא֥וּ טוֹבָֽה
Haydock's commentary
Good, of late. Hebrew, "they see no good."
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 John Chrysostom An Exhortation to Theodore After His Fall, Letter II
Tell me, what is there stable in this world? Wealth which often does not last even to the evening? Or glory? Hear what a certain righteous man says: “My life is swifter than a runner.” For as they dash away before they stand still, even so does this glory take to flight before it has fairly reached us. Nothing is more precious than the soul; and even they who have gone to the extremity of folly have not been ignorant of this; for “there is no equivalent of the soul” is the saying of a heathen poet. …