Job 9:29
But if so also I am wicked, why have I laboured in vain?
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Si autem et sic impius sum, quare frustra laboravi ?
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἐπειδὴ δέ εἰμι ἀσεβής, διὰ τί οὐκ ἀπέθανον;
- Hebrew (WLC)
- אָנֹכִ֥י אֶרְשָׁ֑ע לָמָּה זֶּ֝֗ה הֶ֣בֶל אִיגָֽע
Haydock's commentary
Vain. Why have I endeavoured to repress my grief in silence? God does not forbid us to complain, but only to murmur. (Calmet)
Septuagint, "Since I am wicked, why did I not die?" (Haydock)
Should a wretch be even suffered to live? (St. Chrysostom)
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
29-31 . If I wash myself with snow water, etc.