1883 Haydock Douay Rheims Bible

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Job 1:21

And said: *Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: the Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away: as it hath pleased the Lord, so is it done: blessed be the name of the Lord.

Ecclesiastes 5:14.; 1 Timothy 6:7.

Thither. To that earth from which all are taken. (Haydock) --- Ista terra gentes omnes peperit et resumet demum. (Varro.) --- Ut mater operiens. (Pliny, [Natural History?] 2:63.) See 1 Timothy 6:7. --- As....done. Some copies of St. Jerome omit this, which is borrowed from the Septuagint. (Calmet)