Job 9:7
Who commandeth the sun and it riseth not: and shutteth up the stars as it were under a seal:
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Qui præcipit soli, et non oritur, et stellas claudit quasi sub signaculo.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ὁ λέγων τῷ ἡλίῳ καὶ οὐκ ἀνατέλλει, κατὰ δὲ ἄστρων κατασφραγίζει, κατὰ δὲ ἀγγέλων αὐτοῦ σκόλιόν τι ἐπενόησεν,
- Hebrew (WLC)
- הָאֹמֵ֣ר לַ֭חֶרֶס וְלֹ֣א יִזְרָ֑ח וּבְעַ֖ד כּוֹכָבִ֣ים יַחְתֹּֽם
Haydock's commentary
Seal. So that they appear not. He alludes (Calmet) to masters confining their servants with seals, before locks were invented. (Macrob. vii. 3.)
From these noble effects of God's power, Job takes occasion to humble himself. (Calmet)
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.