Translations
Louis Segond 1910
Le sort de l'homme sur la terre est celui d'un soldat, Et ses jours sont ceux d'un mercenaire.
KJV
[Is there] not an appointed time to man upon earth? [are not] his days also like the days of an hireling?
[Is there] not an appointed time to man upon earth? [are not] his days also like the days of an hireling?
KJV
Hebrew original
Louis Segond 1910
Le sort de l'homme sur la terre est celui d'un soldat, Et ses jours sont ceux d'un mercenaire.
KJV
[Is there] not an appointed time to man upon earth? [are not] his days also like the days of an hireling?
Origen
Commentariorum Series In Evangelium Matthaei (Mt. 22.34-27.63)
te, ne temptemini, sed: ne intretis in temptationem, hoc est ne temptatio vos superet et vincat — 18 Job 7, 1 — 22 Vgl. Joh. 6, 44 — 25f Prov. 13, 21 — 29 f Vgl. Π 312, 17 An.: οὐ γὰρ δεῖ πρὸς μόνην τὴν προθυμίαν ὁρᾶν, ἀλλὰ καὶ τῆς σαρκὸς λογίζεσθαι τὴν ἀσθένειαν 1 aliquando < B…
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
e to merit which is gained by a kind of conflict---since "the life of man upon earth is a warfare" ( Job 7:1 )---and with reference to the reward whereby in a way man is made a participator of the Godhead, and consequently endowed with regal power: "Thou hast made us to our God a…
Various
Patrologia Latina Vol. 96 (Migne)
t desideriis peccati, in viis Domini ambulaverunt. Et quoniam tentatio est vita humana super terram (Job VII, 1) ; etiamsi a criminibus longe simus, non tamen deest, ubi desideriis peccati vel facto vel dicto vel cogitato obediamus, quando adversus majora vigilantibus, quaedam in…
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