Translations
Louis Segond 1910
Je leur souriais quand ils perdaient courage, Et l'on ne pouvait chasser la sérénité de mon front.
KJV
[If] I laughed on them, they believed [it] not; and the light of my countenance they cast not down.
[If] I laughed on them, they believed [it] not; and the light of my countenance they cast not down.
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Patrologia Latina Vol. 104 (Migne)
upervacua, quae pro nihilo habenda, et universorum sunt calcanda despectu sicut et beatus Job dixit (Job. 29. 24) : et lux vultus mei non cadebat in terram; quia [Col. 0650C] nimirum in tanta gravitate vultum (tenere) retinere consueverat, ut nunquam contemptibili laetitia resol…
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Patrologia Latina Vol. 120 (Migne)
ram eo, nisi gravitate se reciperet; quia juxta quod Job ait: Etsi ridebat ad eos, non credebant ei (Job. XXIX, 24) . Quoniam etsi resolvebat gravitatem eloquii, lux vultus ejus non cadebat in terram, agens argute, ut sibi colloquentes ad virtutum studia provocaret. Porro eum cum…
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Patrologia Latina Vol. 137 (Migne)
ebat quia, juxta illud beati Job, Subditis erat tremendus, et lux vultus ejus non cadebat in terram (Job XXIX, 24) . Omnem intentionem suam ideo fore volebat in occulto, ne qua laudandi daretur occasio ex qua mentis subrepere potuisset elatio. Sed quominus petebat gloriam, eo ill…
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