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“Behold, my eye has seen all this. My ear has heard and understood it. See also: Job 5:9-16 Job 8:8-10 Psalms 78:3-4What you know, I know also. I am not inferior to you. See also: Job 12:3 2 Corinthians 11:16-18 2 Corinthians 12:11“Surely I would speak to the Almighty. I desire to reason with God. See also: Isaiah 41:21 Job 9:3 Job 13:22But you are forgers of lies. You are all physicians of no value. See also: Psalms 119:69 Jeremiah 6:14 Jeremiah 8:22Oh that you would be completely silent! Then you would be wise. See also: Proverbs 17:28 James 1:19 Ecclesiastes 5:3Hear now my reasoning. Listen to the pleadings of my lips. See also: Job 34:2 Job 21:2-3 Proverbs 8:6-7Will you speak unrighteously for God, and talk deceitfully for him? See also: Job 36:4 Job 27:4 Job 11:2-4Will you show partiality to him? Will you contend for God? See also: Proverbs 24:23 Exodus 23:2-3 Job 32:21Is it good that he should search you out? Or as one deceives a man, will you deceive him? See also: Galatians 6:7-8 Jeremiah 17:10 Psalms 44:21He will surely reprove you if you secretly show partiality. See also: James 2:9 Psalms 50:21-22 Psalms 82:2Won’t his majesty make you afraid and his dread fall on you? See also: Job 31:23 Psalms 119:120 Exodus 15:16Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes. Your defenses are defenses of clay. See also: Psalms 102:12 Isaiah 26:14 Psalms 34:16“Be silent! Leave me alone, that I may speak. Let come on me what will. See also: Job 7:11 Job 13:5 Job 10:1Why should I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand? See also: Judges 12:3 Psalms 119:109 Job 18:4Behold, he will kill me. I have no hope. Nevertheless, I will maintain my ways before him. See also: Psalms 23:4 Job 19:25-28 Job 23:10This also will be my salvation, that a godless man will not come before him. See also: Isaiah 12:1-2 Psalms 118:21 Isaiah 33:14Listen carefully to my speech. Let my declaration be in your ears. See also: Job 13:6 Job 33:1 Job 21:2See now, I have set my cause in order. I know that I am righteous. See also: Job 23:4 Job 9:2-3 Job 9:20Who is he who will contend with me? For then I would hold my peace and give up the spirit. See also: Isaiah 50:7-8 Job 33:5-7 Jeremiah 20:9“Only don’t do two things to me, then I will not hide myself from your face: See also: Job 9:34-35 Psalms 139:12 Genesis 3:8-10withdraw your hand far from me, and don’t let your terror make me afraid. See also: Job 33:7 Psalms 39:10 Job 9:34Then call, and I will answer, or let me speak, and you answer me. See also: Job 14:15 Job 38:3 Job 9:16How many are my iniquities and sins? Make me know my disobedience and my sin. See also: Psalms 139:23 Psalms 44:20-21 Job 36:8-9Why do you hide your face, and consider me your enemy? See also: Job 19:11 Lamentations 2:5 Psalms 13:1Will you harass a driven leaf? Will you pursue the dry stubble? See also: Leviticus 26:36 Job 21:18 Job 14:3For you write bitter things against me, and make me inherit the iniquities of my youth. See also: Psalms 25:7 John 5:14 Psalms 88:3-18You also put my feet in the stocks, and mark all my paths. You set a bound to the soles of my feet, See also: Job 33:11 Job 14:16 Job 16:9though I am decaying like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten. See also: Psalms 39:11 Job 4:19 Numbers 12:12

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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)21 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 13:1

Ver. 1. All, without your information. C.

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Job 13:3

Ver. 3. Reason. Heb. "to dispute with, or before God," concerning the matter which we have in hand. He appeals to God, as to the judge of all.

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Job 13:4

Ver. 4. Having. Heb. "But ye are sewers of lies." C. --- Sept. "unskilful surgeons, (who, instead of sewing up a wound, increase it) and all of you doctors of evil;" vain empirics. --- Maintainers.

Prot. "ye are all physicians of no value." H.

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Job 13:5

Ver. 5. Men. Prov. xvii. 28. If you had been silent, you might still have had the reputation of wisdom. C.

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Job 13:6

Ver. 6. Judgment. Heb. "pleading" before our common judge. H.

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Job 13:8

Ver. 8. Accept. Heb. "will you not be seized with fear?" Olympiodorus translates, "will you stad in his presence, and dispute with him?" C. --- Sept.

"Are you sent to be judges?" &c. or, do you suppose that you hope to gain his favour? C. --- He knows the state of my soul best; then I myself: but you are quite in the dark. W.

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Job 13:9

Ver. 9. Or. Heb. "Is it good that he should examine you, would you escape?" C.

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Job 13:10

Ver. 10. His. Heb. "persons." Because you see me afflicted, you infer that I am guilty; and think this mode of judging most honourable to God, whom you wish thus to please. H. --- But he stands not in need of lies; (C.) and something farther is still to be proved. H. --- You judge rashly, as if you designed to please a prince, (M.) without examining the cause of the accused. H.

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Job 13:12

Ver. 12. Necks. Sept. "body." Heb. also, (H.) "heights," (C.) or "fortifications."

Grotius.

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Job 13:13

Ver. 13. Whatsoever. Heb. "come what will. " Sept. "that my anger may cease."

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Job 13:14

Ver. 14. Why you seem to ask do I thus eagerly desire to die, (H.) as if I wear tearing my own flesh, and exposing my soul to danger, (W.) like a madman? T.

--- Is it not better for me to address myself to God, that he would hasten my departure, than thus to tear my flesh with my teeth? C. --- Some have supposed that Job really did so in extreme anguish, (V. Bede) the leprosy occasioning such an insupportable irritation. H. --- But the expression insinuates an interior anguish or despair; (Isai. xlix. 26.) in which sense Pythagoras enjoins, "no to eat the heart." ---

Hands, in imminent danger of death. Ps. cxviii. 109. --- S. Gregory explains it in a moral sense:

"It is to manifest the intention of the heart by the actions." H.

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Job 13:15

This 19th-century note uses polemical language; read it in the light of the note at the top of this panel.

Ver. 15. In him. Heb. lu is read, though lo, "not," is written in the Heb. text. H. ---

Protestants,

&c. follow the sense of the Vulgate, and Junius comes to the same, as he reads lo with an interrogation: "Should I not hope in him?" Luther and the Belgic version go astray: "Behold he shall kill me, and I cannot expect," or hope; I am resolved to die: which words indicate "extreme impatience."

Amama. --- Sept. "If the powerful (or Lord) lay [not] hands on me, since it is commenced? No: but I shall speak and arraign [you] before him," &c. The words not and you are thus placed in Grabe's edition. H. --- Ways. I do not pretend that I am quite blameless. C. ---

Prot. "I will maintain (Marg. prove or argue) mine own ways before him." H. --- I will hope, like Abraham, even against hope, to shew that I am not actuated by despair: yet I will continue to declare my innocence, v. 16. T.

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Job 13:16

Ver. 16. Hypocrite. If I were such, I should not dare to appeal so boldly to his tribunal. C.

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Job 13:17

Ver. 17. Truths. Lit. "riddles" to you. Heb. achavathi, (H.) means "instructions,"

&c. C.

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Job 13:18

Ver. 18. Just. He was in extreme anguish, yet still trusted in God. W.

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Job 13:19

Ver. 19. Peace. It will be some consolation to explain my reasons. If I am fairly overcome, I shall die with more content. C.

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Job 13:20

Ver. 20. Only. He makes the same petition to God as C. ix. 34. and xxxiii. 7. H.

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Job 13:23

Ver. 23. Offences, which might be hidden to Job himself. W. --- He speaks to God with the freedom which he had requested, desiring to know if he were really guilty, (C.) that he might give glory to him, (H.) by an humble confession.

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Job 13:26

Ver. 26. Bitter. The judge wrote down the sentence; which he read, or gave to his officer. C. ---

Youth, for which I thought I had satisfied. H.

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Job 13:27

Ver. 27. Stocks, in which the person's legs were sometimes stretched to the sixth hole; (C.) at other times, the neck was confined. M. --- Some translate the Heb. "in the mud," which agrees with the other part of the verse. --- Steps. Heb.

and Sept. "roots," or ankles, which retain the prints made by the stocks.

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Job 13:28

Ver. 28. Rottenness. Sept. "an old vessel," or skin, to contain wine, &c. C. ---

My condition might excite pity. 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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