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Job

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“My soul is weary of my life. I will give free course to my complaint. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul. See also: Job 7:11 1 Kings 19:4 Numbers 11:15I will tell God, ‘Do not condemn me. Show me why you contend with me. See also: Psalms 139:23-24 Job 9:29 Psalms 143:2Is it good to you that you should oppress, that you should despise the work of your hands, and smile on the counsel of the wicked? See also: Isaiah 64:8 Psalms 138:8 Job 14:15Do you have eyes of flesh? Or do you see as man sees? See also: 1 Samuel 16:7 Luke 16:15 Job 9:32Are your days as the days of mortals, or your years as man’s years, See also: 2 Peter 3:8 Psalms 90:2-4 Hebrews 1:12that you inquire after my iniquity, and search after my sin? See also: Job 14:16 Psalms 10:15 Jeremiah 2:34Although you know that I am not wicked, there is no one who can deliver out of your hand. See also: Deuteronomy 32:39 Job 42:7 John 10:28-30“‘Your hands have framed me and fashioned me altogether, yet you destroy me. See also: Psalms 119:73 Job 10:3 Isaiah 43:7Remember, I beg you, that you have fashioned me as clay. Will you bring me into dust again? See also: Genesis 2:7 Isaiah 64:8 Genesis 3:19Haven’t you poured me out like milk, and curdled me like cheese? See also: Psalms 139:14-16You have clothed me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and sinews. See also: Ezekiel 37:4-8 Job 40:17-18 Ephesians 4:16You have granted me life and loving kindness. Your visitation has preserved my spirit. See also: Acts 17:28 Job 33:4 Acts 17:25Yet you hid these things in your heart. I know that this is with you: See also: Job 23:13 Deuteronomy 32:39 Isaiah 46:9-11if I sin, then you mark me. You will not acquit me from my iniquity. See also: Job 7:21 Psalms 130:3 Psalms 139:1If I am wicked, woe to me. If I am righteous, I still will not lift up my head, being filled with disgrace, and conscious of my affliction. See also: Isaiah 3:11 Job 9:15 Job 9:20-21If my head is held high, you hunt me like a lion. Again you show yourself powerful to me. See also: Isaiah 38:13 Lamentations 3:10 Job 5:9You renew your witnesses against me, and increase your indignation on me. Changes and warfare are with me. See also: Job 16:8 Ruth 1:21 Job 16:11-16“‘Why, then, have you brought me out of the womb? I wish I had given up the spirit, and no eye had seen me. See also: Jeremiah 20:14-18 Job 14:10 Job 3:10-11I should have been as though I had not been. I should have been carried from the womb to the grave. See also: Psalms 58:8Aren’t my days few? Stop! Leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort, See also: Job 14:1 Psalms 39:13 Job 7:16-21before I go where I will not return from, to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death; See also: Job 3:5 2 Samuel 12:23 Job 16:22the land dark as midnight, of the shadow of death, without any order, where the light is as midnight.’” See also: Psalms 88:12 Psalms 44:19 Job 38:17

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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)17 notes

Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.

These notes keep the polemics of their time: some speak harshly of the Jewish people or of other Christians. The Church teaches otherwise today. The Jewish people may not be blamed for the death of Christ (Nostra Aetate 4; Catechism 597–598), and Christians of other communities are our brothers and sisters in the Lord (Unitatis Redintegratio 3). Christian unity

Job 10:1

Ver. 1. Life. Job had intimated a fear to proceed any farther. C. --- But perceiving that he had not convinced his friends, he continues his discourse (H.) in still stronger terms, yet so as to acknowledge the justice of God. C. ---

Speech against. Heb. "complaint upon, (H.) or respecting myself," I will deplore my misfortunes, (C.) or I will say no more about them. M.

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Job 10:2

Ver. 2. Judgest. Heb. "contendest with me," as with an enemy? Is it to punish some fault, or only to make thy grace shine forth? C.

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Job 10:3

Ver. 3. Calumniate permissively, by treating me in such a manner, that others lay false crimes to my charge. Heb. "oppress and despise the work." ---

Wicked, who are ready enough (H.) to assert that virtue is useless, (C.) and that God mindeth not human affairs. My affliction will confirm them in their false notion, (H.) and my friends will triumph as if their arguments were well founded. The devil will also exult. C. --- He knew that God could not be guilty of calumny, and inquireth why he is afflicted. W.

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Job 10:4

Ver. 4. Seeth, judging only of the exterior. T. v. 6.

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Job 10:5

Ver. 5. Days, sometimes denote judgments. 1 Cor. iv. 3. Is God liable to change, like men, or does he stand in need of time to examine them, or fear lest they should escape? C. --- Is it necessary for him to prove his friends, to know their real dispositions? Sanctius.

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Job 10:7

Ver. 7. Shouldst. Heb. and Sept. "Thou knowest that...and there," &c. H. --- It would be vain for me to appeal to any other. C.

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Job 10:8

Ver. 8. Sudden, like a potter's vessel? Job was reduced to misery all at once. C.

--- He acknowledges that God may destroy him as his creature; but that character encourages him to hope for mercy, grace, and glory. W.

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Job 10:10

Ver. 10. Milked. Heb. "poured me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese?" H.

--- See Wisd.

vii. 1. The ancients explained our origin by the comparison of milk curdled, or cheese; (Arist. i.

10. Pliny vii. 15.) which the moderns have explained on more plausible principles. C. --- Yet still we may acknowledge our ignorance with the mother of Machabees. 2 Mac. vii. 22.

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Job 10:12

Ver. 12. Thy fatherly visitation (H.) but still preserved my life. C.

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Job 10:13

Ver. 13. Rememberest. Sept. "canst do all things." Heb. "this is with thee." H.

--- I am convinced that thou still regardest me with affection, though it would appear as if thou hadst forgotten me. C.

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Job 10:14

Ver. 14. Iniquity? Punishing me for the sins which seemed to be pardoned. C.

--- Heb. "If I sin, then thou makest me, and wilt not suffer; (H.) or if thou hast not pardoned my iniquity: (15) And," &c. C.

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Job 10:15

Ver. 15. Woe. Thou wilt not suffer me to pass unpunished. C. --- Head. I will adore in silence.

C. ix. 15. 31. Ven. Bede. C.

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Job 10:16

Ver. 16. Pride. If I give way to pride, thou wilt pull me down, though I were as fierce and strong as a lioness. Heb. "for it (affliction) increaseth. Thou huntest me." Prot. --- Returning. Heb. and Sept. "again." H.

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Job 10:17

Ver. 17. Witnesses, afflictions; (M.) "wounds." Pagnin. T.

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Job 10:20

Ver. 20. Lament. Heb. "take comfort," (H.) or breath. C. --- Repentance is always necessary, but more particularly at the hour of death. W.

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Job 10:21

Ver. 21. Death, to the grave, or to hell, (C.) if my sins deserve it. H.

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Job 10:22

Ver. 22. Horror. At death all distinction of ranks is at an end. T. --- Heb. "where the light is as darkness." Prot. Sept. "To the land of eternal darkness, where there is no sound, nor life of mortals to see." H.

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License: Notes by Fr. George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), from the Douay-Rheims Bible with Haydock's commentary (first ed. Thomas Haydock, Manchester/Dublin, 1811–1814; New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1859); New Testament notes compiled with Fr. Benedict Rayment. Public domain. Digital text: "The Haydock Bible", Internet Archive (archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible), uploaded 2011 under the Public Domain Mark. · Credits and licenses

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