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Job
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Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered, See also: Job 2:11Job 42:7Job 22:1“Should a wise man answer with vain knowledge, and fill himself with the east wind? See also: Job 6:26Job 8:2Hosea 12:1Should he reason with unprofitable talk, or with speeches with which he can do no good? See also: Matthew 12:36-37Colossians 4:6Job 13:4-5Yes, you do away with fear, and hinder devotion before God. See also: Romans 3:31Job 6:14Zephaniah 1:6For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty. See also: Jeremiah 9:3-5James 1:26Luke 6:45Your own mouth condemns you, and not I. Yes, your own lips testify against you. See also: Luke 19:22Job 9:20Matthew 12:37“Are you the first man who was born? Or were you brought out before the hills? See also: Psalms 90:2Job 38:4-41Job 12:12Have you heard the secret counsel of God? Do you limit wisdom to yourself? See also: Romans 11:34Jeremiah 23:18Proverbs 3:32What do you know that we don’t know? What do you understand which is not in us? See also: Job 13:22 Corinthians 11:5Job 26:3-4With us are both the gray-headed and the very aged men, much older than your father. See also: Job 32:6-7Job 8:8-10Job 12:12Are the consolations of God too small for you, even the word that is gentle toward you? See also: Job 13:22 Corinthians 1:3-52 Corinthians 7:6Why does your heart carry you away? Why do your eyes flash, See also: Psalms 35:19Mark 7:21-22Job 17:2that you turn your spirit against God, and let such words go out of your mouth? See also: Job 15:25-27James 3:2-6Psalms 34:13What is man, that he should be clean? What is he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous? See also: Ecclesiastes 7:20Job 14:4Proverbs 20:9Behold, he puts no trust in his holy ones. Yes, the heavens are not clean in his sight; See also: Job 4:18Job 25:5Isaiah 6:2-5how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks iniquity like water! See also: Proverbs 19:28Job 34:7Psalms 53:3“I will show you, listen to me; that which I have seen I will declare See also: Job 5:27Job 33:1Job 34:2(which wise men have told by their fathers, and have not hidden it; See also: Job 8:8Job 15:10Psalms 78:3-6to whom alone the land was given, and no stranger passed among them): See also: Joel 3:17Deuteronomy 32:8Genesis 10:32the wicked man writhes in pain all his days, even the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor. See also: James 5:1-6Job 27:13Luke 12:19-21A sound of terrors is in his ears. In prosperity the destroyer will come on him. See also: Job 18:111 Thessalonians 5:3Leviticus 26:36He doesn’t believe that he will return out of darkness. He is waited for by the sword. See also: Job 20:24-25Job 9:16Matthew 27:5He wanders abroad for bread, saying, ‘Where is it?’ He knows that the day of darkness is ready at his hand. See also: Psalms 109:10Psalms 59:15Job 18:12Distress and anguish make him afraid. They prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle. See also: Proverbs 24:34Proverbs 6:11Psalms 119:143Because he has stretched out his hand against God, and behaves himself proudly against the Almighty, See also: Psalms 73:9Job 9:4Daniel 5:23he runs at him with a stiff neck, with the thick shields of his bucklers, See also: 2 Chronicles 32:13-17Genesis 49:8Psalms 18:40because he has covered his face with his fatness, and gathered fat on his thighs. See also: Psalms 17:10Jeremiah 5:28Isaiah 6:10He has lived in desolate cities, in houses which no one inhabited, which were ready to become heaps. See also: Job 3:14Jeremiah 51:37Micah 3:12He will not be rich, neither will his substance continue, neither will their possessions be extended on the earth. See also: Job 27:16-17James 1:11Job 20:22-28He will not depart out of darkness. The flame will dry up his branches. He will go away by the breath of God’s mouth. See also: Job 4:9Job 20:26Job 15:22Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself, for emptiness will be his reward. See also: Isaiah 59:4Galatians 6:3Psalms 62:10It will be accomplished before his time. His branch will not be green. See also: Ecclesiastes 7:17Psalms 55:23Job 22:16He will shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and will cast off his flower as the olive tree. See also: Revelation 6:13Deuteronomy 28:39-40Isaiah 33:9For the company of the godless will be barren, and fire will consume the tents of bribery. See also: Job 8:13Job 27:8Job 8:22They conceive mischief and produce iniquity. Their heart prepares deceit.” See also: Psalms 7:14Hosea 10:13Isaiah 59:4-5
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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)23 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 15:2
Ver. 2. Heat. Heb. "east wind," (H.) or give vent to passion. H. --- Eliphaz now rebukes Job without any reserve. C. --- He was perhaps displeased at the comparison used by the latter. C.
xiii. 4. Baldad had also hinted that Job's discourse was nothing but wind. C.
viii. 2. H. --- Being unable to answer his arguments, he reviles him as an enemy of God. W.
↑ 2Job 15:3
Ver. 3. Equal. God, who is far above thee. Heb. "Will he (the wise) argue with less words, or with speeches which are nothing to the purpose?" C.
↑ 3Job 15:4
Ver. 4. God. Another, after thy example, will assert his own innocence under affliction, and will not fear, nor have recourse to God by humble prayer. Behold the dangerous consequences of thy principle. C.
↑ 4Job 15:5
Ver. 5. Blasphemers. Heb. "of the crafty," which is sometimes taken in a good sense. Sept.
"thou hast not distinguished the speeches of the princes." Thou hast not shewn respect to our admonitions, (C.) or understood our meaning. H. --- Thou rather choosest to imitate those false sages, who strive to deceive the world.
Abuse could hardly be carried to greater lengths than it is by this man; who before spoke with some moderation. C. iv. C.
↑ 5Job 15:7
Ver. 7. First. Is thy experience so great, (M.) or art thou the most excellent of men? To hear thee we are but novices. C. xiii. 5. C.
↑ 7Job 15:8
Ver. 8. His. Heb. "dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself? Sept. "or has wisdom come to thee?"
H.
↑ 8Job 15:10
Ver. 10. Fathers. Heb. and Sept. "father." H. --- Eliphaz always speaks first, and hints that he was as old, perhaps older, than Job; who had rather found fault with the youth of Sophar. C. xii.
12. He also boasts that they, or their country, furnished master of great wisdom and experience than even Job's father. C.
↑ 10Job 15:11
Ver. 11. Thee. This would not be difficult, (T.) if thy presumption did not prove an obstacle.
Thou makest small account of those comforts or of our advice, trusting in thy own justice. C. ---
Sept. "Thou hast been chastised little, considering thy sins. Thou hast spoken with excessive insolence."
↑ 11Job 15:12
Ver. 12. Why. Sept. "What has thy heart dared, or what have thine eyes brought thee?" Heb.
"what do thy eyes wink at?" (H.) through pride and disdain. Ps. xxxiv. 19. Prov.
vi. 13. C. ---
We need not wonder that Eliphaz should misunderstand the looks of Job, (H.) since he gives such a false notion of his speeches. C.
↑ 12Job 15:14
Ver. 14. Just. Few are free from all spot; but venial sins do not hinder a man from being styled truly virtuous. W.
↑ 14Job 15:15
Ver. 15. Unchangeable, of his own nature, and during this life. C. --- Heb. and Sept. "is not trusted by him," till they have been tried, (H. C. iv. 17. None is good but God alone. Mar. x. 18.) in comparison. T.
↑ 15Job 15:16
Ver. 16. Water, with the utmost avidity and unconcern. Prov. x. 23. and xxvi. 6.
↑ 16Job 15:17
Ver. 17. Seen. He had before given himself out for a prophet. Perhaps he may only mean to deliver what he had been taught, or had learned by experience, v.
18. His observations are in themselves just; but the application to Job is no less insulting. C.
↑ 17Job 15:18
Ver. 18. Wise. Prot. "which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it. " C. viii.
8. The authority of tradition was then very great; and why should it now be despised? H.
↑ 18Job 15:19
Ver. 19. Them. Their antiquity, courage, and purity of morals must consequently be greater, as they have preserved themselves from the inroads of strangers. C.
↑ 19Job 15:20
Ver. 20. Proud; uncertain. Heb. "in pain." H. --- Sept. "numbered," or few. Gen.
xxxiv. 30.
These are the maxims which Eliphaz had received in a vision, or from the ancients, v. 17. The description of a tyrant's life was admirably verified in Dionysius, of Syracuse, (C.) and in our Cromwell, (H.)---
"-----pale and trembling in the dead of night." Pope.
---who rarely lodged two night in one chamber. Clarendon. --- Such live in dread, (H.) and seldom die a natural death.
Ad generum Cereris sine cæde et vulnere pauci
Descendunt reges et siccâ morte Tyranni. Juv. x. 113.
Nocte dieque suum gestare in pectore testem. Juv. xiii.
They bear always about the witness, "conscience." H. --- They distrust every one, and are hated by all.
Districtus ensis cui super impia
Cervice pendet, &c. Hor. iii. Ode 1.
--- These miseries are incident to the wicked, but are improperly addressed to Job. W.
↑ 20Job 15:26
Ver. 26. And is. Heb. "even upon the thick bosses of his buckler." H. --- God thus seizes his antagonist, who, like Pharao, swells with pride. C. Deut. xxxii.
15.
↑ 26Job 15:28
Ver. 28. Heaps, by his ambition and fury, (C.) and exactions, (Cajet. M.) till the king chooses to rebuild the cities. Vatab.
↑ 28Job 15:31
Ver. 31. That he. Heb. and Sept. "for vanity shall be his reward." H. --- If he would repent, he might still be safe. M.
↑ 31Job 15:32
Ver. 32. Hands; strength and prosperity. C. --- Sept. "his branch shall not grow thick." H.
↑ 32Job 15:33
Ver. 33. First. Heb. "unripe." H. --- He shall derive no aid or comfort from his young family.
↑ 33Job 15:34
Ver. 34. Congregation, or family. --- Bribes. Lit. "presents," which H. frequently were not given freely, but extorted as a real tribute. C. --- Sept. "for the death of the wicked is a martyrdom," or proof of his impiety. "But fire shall consume the houses of the present (or bribe) receivers."
↑ 34Job 15:35
Ver. 35. Sorrow. Heb. "mischief." H. See Ps. vii. 15. Isai. xlix. 4. --- The tree is known by its fruit. Eliphaz sufficiently insinuates, that he is speaking of Job. C.
--- His, or "its," the congregation's womb, v. 34. Prot. "their belly." H.
↑ 35License: 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