Translations
Louis Segond 1910
Ceins tes reins comme un vaillant homme; Je t'interrogerai, et tu m'instruiras.
KJV
Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me.
Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me.
KJV
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, Chapter Twelve, Verse Thirty-Five. In Matthew 12:35, and in Job: "Gird up your loins like a man" (Job 38:3). The navel symbolizes the desire of lust. In Job: "And his strength is in the muscles of his belly" (Job 40:16); meaning it signifies the female genitalia, just as in th…
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Patrologia Latina Vol. 136 (Migne)
nes qui speratis in Domino (Psal. XXVI, 14) . Et illud Domini ad Job: Accinge sicut vir lumbos tuos (Job. XXXVIII, 3) . Contra aerias quoque potestates, quae significantur per Cananaeorum reges, ad bellanda Domini bella te cogitans directum, ut terram repromissionis merearis intr…
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Patrologia Latina Vol. 193 (Migne)
dicens: Nunquid conjungere valebis micantes stellas Peiades, aut gyrum Arcturi poteris dissipare? (Job XXXVIII, 3.) Arcturus quippe ita nocturna tempora illustrat, ut in coeli axe positus per diversa se vertat, nec tamen occidat. Neque enim extra currens volvitur, sed in loco s…
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