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Then Job answered, “No doubt, but you are the people, and wisdom will die with you. See also: Isaiah 5:21 Job 17:4 Job 15:2But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Yes, who doesn’t know such things as these? See also: Job 13:2-5 2 Corinthians 11:21-23 Proverbs 26:4I am like one who is a joke to his neighbor, I, who called on God, and he answered. The just, the blameless man is a joke. See also: Job 30:1 Psalms 91:15 Job 21:3In the thought of him who is at ease there is contempt for misfortune. It is ready for them whose foot slips. See also: Proverbs 13:9 Matthew 25:8 Psalms 17:5The tents of robbers prosper. Those who provoke God are secure, who carry their god in their hands. See also: Job 9:24 Psalms 73:11-12 Psalms 17:14“But ask the animals now, and they will teach you; the birds of the sky, and they will tell you. See also: Isaiah 1:3 Proverbs 6:6 Jeremiah 8:7Or speak to the earth, and it will teach you. The fish of the sea will declare to you. Who doesn’t know that in all these, the LORD’s hand has done this, See also: Isaiah 41:20 Jeremiah 27:5-6 Romans 11:36in whose hand is the life of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind? See also: Acts 17:28 Job 33:4 Acts 17:25Doesn’t the ear try words, even as the palate tastes its food? See also: Job 34:3 Hebrews 5:14 1 Peter 2:3With aged men is wisdom, in length of days understanding. See also: Job 32:7 Job 15:10 Job 8:8“With God is wisdom and might. He has counsel and understanding. See also: Job 9:4 Job 36:5 Proverbs 2:6-7Behold, he breaks down, and it can’t be built again. He imprisons a man, and there can be no release. See also: Revelation 3:7 Isaiah 22:22 Job 11:10Behold, he withholds the waters, and they dry up. Again, he sends them out, and they overturn the earth. See also: 1 Kings 17:1 Amos 5:8 Job 12:10With him is strength and wisdom. The deceived and the deceiver are his. See also: Job 13:9 Job 12:13 1 Kings 22:22-23He leads counselors away stripped. He makes judges fools. See also: Isaiah 29:14 1 Corinthians 1:19-20 2 Samuel 17:23He loosens the bond of kings. He binds their waist with a belt. See also: Daniel 2:21 Psalms 116:16 2 Chronicles 33:11-14He leads priests away stripped, and overthrows the mighty. See also: Isaiah 45:1 Isaiah 37:36-38 Job 34:28He removes the speech of those who are trusted, and takes away the understanding of the elders. See also: Job 32:9 Job 17:4 Job 12:24He pours contempt on princes, and loosens the belt of the strong. See also: Psalms 107:40 Isaiah 23:9 1 Kings 21:23-24He uncovers deep things out of darkness, and brings out to light the shadow of death. See also: Daniel 2:22 1 Corinthians 4:5 1 Corinthians 2:10He increases the nations, and he destroys them. He enlarges the nations, and he leads them captive. See also: Isaiah 9:3 Isaiah 26:15 Isaiah 60:22He takes away understanding from the chiefs of the people of the earth, and causes them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way. See also: Psalms 107:40 Job 12:20 Hosea 7:11They grope in the dark without light. He makes them stagger like a drunken man. See also: Job 5:14 Psalms 107:27 Isaiah 24:20

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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)14 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 12:2

Ver. 2. You. Heb. "truly you are the people, and wisdom will die with you!" This irony is very sharp. C. --- "Are you alone men? or shall?" &c. Sept. Syr.

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Job 12:4

Ver. 4. Mocked. He retaliates on Sophar, (C. xi. 3. H.) who had very seriously exhorted Job to call on God, as if he had been ignorant of this duty. C. --- God will one day force the wicked to retract their false notion, in despising his servants. Wisd. v. 3. W.

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Job 12:5

Ver. 5. The lamp. Such is the just man, who under affliction is (H.) exposed to the ridicule of men who live at their ease. --- For. Heb. "to fall." C. --- Sept. "It was appointed for me to fall under others at the time fixed."

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Job 12:6

Ver. 6. Abound. Heb. "are at peace." C. --- The prosperity of the wicked is therefore no proof that they are pleasing to him. H. --- All nature testifies that God exercises a sovereign dominion over his works. He may therefore cause the just to suffer, though they be guiltless. This is one of Job's grand maxims.

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Job 12:11

Ver. 11. Taste. For this no master is requisite; so I stood in no need of your information, (C.) of such trite remarks. H.

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Job 12:12

Ver. 12. Ancient. He rather chides the youth of Sophar for offering to give him lessons. Old age is indeed commonly wiser and more experienced. Yet, what is man's knowledge compared to that of God! v. 3.

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Job 12:17

Ver. 17. To a. Heb. "to be despoiled" of their wisdom and riches. C. --- Sept.

"into captivity."

H. --- Crafty plotters at last fall into such misconduct, as to be derided by men of the meanest capacity. W.

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Job 12:18

Ver. 18. Looseth. Sept. "setteth kings upon the throne," &c. --- Belt. This was usually very magnificent, and a military ornament. See that of Pallas described. Æn. x. Job intimates that God derives kings of their authority, at pleasure. Heb. may also signify that he looseth the bond or prisoner of kings, and reduces themselves to slavery. C. --- Things never remain long in the same state. H. --- Even kings are sometimes obliged to beg. M.

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Job 12:19

Ver. 19. Without. Heb. "despoiled." Sept. "captives." Cohanim, may comprise both sacred ministers and civil princes. 1 K. viii. 18. All are equally subject to God. C.

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Job 12:20

Ver. 20. Speakers. Permitting them to speak deceitfully, (C.) or causing their oracles to be contemned. H. --- Heb. "he withdraws speech from men of confidence." C. --- Neemanim, (H.) ambassadors or prime ministers. Num. xii.

7. He disconcerteth the best concerted plans.

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Job 12:21

Ver. 21. Relieveth. Heb. "ungirdeth (disarms) the strong." C. --- Sept. "but the lowly (humble) he has healed."

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Job 12:22

Ver. 22. Of death. Tsalmaveth (H.) may perhaps simply denote darkness. C. ---

God bringeth to light the most hidden things. H.

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Job 12:23

Ver. 23. Multiplieth. Heb. Sept. and Syr. "deceiveth," (C.) suffering them to confide too much in their strength, so that they fall an easy prey. H. --- How many nations, once so powerful, are now fallen; while others of no account have risen to eminence!

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Job 12:24

Ver. 24. Changeth. Heb. "taketh away the heart," or prudence "of princes."

Hence they follow the most absurd counsels. Isai. xxix. 19. C. --- No way. This was the case of Pharao, when he pursued the Israelites into the sea; (T.) and the like may rationally be feared by those princes, who attempt to make innovations in the true religion, or in the sound laws of a kingdom. M.

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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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