So that my soul chooses strangling, and death rather than my life.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Hanging. Protestants, "strangling and death, rather than my life "or Marginal note, "bones. "(Haydock)
Any species of Death would be preferable to this misery. (Calmet)
Who would not entertain the same sentiments, if the fear of worse in the other world did not withhold him? But Job had reason to hope that his sorrows would end with his life. (Haydock)
It is thought that he was dreadfully tempted to despair. (Calmet)
Yet he resisted manfully, and overcame all attempts of the wicked one.