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Then Job answered, “I have heard many such things. You are all miserable comforters! See also: Job 13:4-5Job 6:25Philippians 1:16Shall vain words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer? See also: Job 6:26Job 15:2Job 20:3I also could speak as you do. If your soul were in my soul’s place, I could join words together against you, and shake my head at you, See also: Psalms 22:7Psalms 109:25Lamentations 2:15but I would strengthen you with my mouth. The solace of my lips would relieve you. See also: Proverbs 27:9Isaiah 35:3-4Galatians 6:1“Though I speak, my grief is not subsided. Though I forbear, what am I eased? See also: Job 10:1Psalms 88:15-18Psalms 77:1-9But now, God, you have surely worn me out. You have made all my company desolate. See also: Job 7:3Job 1:15-19Job 7:16You have shriveled me up. This is a witness against me. My leanness rises up against me. It testifies to my face. See also: Job 10:17Job 19:20Psalms 109:24He has torn me in his wrath and persecuted me. He has gnashed on me with his teeth. My adversary sharpens his eyes on me. See also: Psalms 35:16Lamentations 2:16Job 13:24They have gaped on me with their mouth. They have struck me on the cheek reproachfully. They gather themselves together against me. See also: Psalms 35:15Psalms 22:13Isaiah 50:6God delivers me to the ungodly, and casts me into the hands of the wicked. See also: Psalms 27:12Psalms 7:14Psalms 31:8I was at ease, and he broke me apart. Yes, he has taken me by the neck, and dashed me to pieces. He has also set me up for his target. See also: Job 7:20Lamentations 3:11-12Lamentations 3:4His archers surround me. He splits my kidneys apart, and does not spare. He pours out my bile on the ground. See also: Job 20:25Job 6:4Lamentations 2:11He breaks me with breach on breach. He runs at me like a giant. See also: Judges 15:8Job 9:17Psalms 42:7I have sewed sackcloth on my skin, and have thrust my horn in the dust. See also: Genesis 37:34Psalms 7:51 Kings 21:27My face is red with weeping. Deep darkness is on my eyelids, See also: Lamentations 1:16Psalms 102:3-5Mark 14:34although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure. See also: Proverbs 15:8Psalms 66:18-19Job 8:5-6“Earth, don’t cover my blood. Let my cry have no place to rest. See also: Ezekiel 24:7Isaiah 26:21Genesis 4:11Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven. He who vouches for me is on high. See also: Romans 1:9Genesis 31:502 Corinthians 11:31My friends scoff at me. My eyes pour out tears to God, See also: Hebrews 5:7Psalms 142:2Job 17:2that he would maintain the right of a man with God, of a son of man with his neighbor! See also: Ecclesiastes 6:10Isaiah 45:9Romans 9:20For when a few years have come, I will go the way of no return. See also: Job 14:10Job 14:5Job 14:14
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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)16 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 16:2
Ver. 2. Comforters. "Job's friends or comforters," are become proverbial, to denote people who do the contrary to what they seem to promise. H. --- Never did men sustain worse the character of comforters. They all magnify their knowledge and piety, and make the most absurd application of their principles to Job's condition. C. --- He was not ignorant that tyrants and wicked men were often, may generally till the age in which he lived, visited with visible judgments. H.
↑ 2Job 16:3
Ver. 3. Windy, inconclusive arguments. They all entertain a mean opinion of their adversaries, as they did not agree in the application of the propositions.
Hence though they might be true, they were nothing to their present purpose.
C. xv. 3. H. --- Trouble. You can speak without any pain: but the case is far different with me. M. --- Heb. "what emboldeneth thee to answer?" H. ---
Who asks thee for advice? C. --- True friends will give it without upbraiding, or laying false crimes to the charge of any one. W.
↑ 3Job 16:4
Ver. 4. My soul. If you had experienced my state of misery, (H.) I surely would not have behaved thus to you. C.
Facile, cum valemus, recta consilia ægrotis damus:
Tu si hic sis, aliter sentias. Terent. Andria.
↑ 4Job 16:5
Ver. 5. Wag, or shake my head out of pity. C. xlii. 11. Nah. iii. 7. The same sign often indicates astonishment or contempt. Ps. xxi. 8. Matt. xxvii. 28. C.
↑ 5Job 16:7
Ver. 7. But. Heb. "If I speak," &c.
↑ 7Job 16:8
Ver. 8. Limbs. Heb. "company," (H.) or family. The assemblage of my limbs is also disordered by the leprosy.
↑ 8Job 16:9
Ver. 9. Against me, in your opinion, as if I were guilty of lies. Heb. "my leanness bears witness, my falsehood has risen up against me and answered me to my face;" which may be understood in the same sense as the argument of Eliphaz.
He is designated by the false speaker; (C.) unless we explain it of the wrinkles, which falsely indicated that Job was advanced in years, or of the malady; whence it was gathered that he must be a criminal. M. --- Prot. "my leanness riseth up."
H.
↑ 9Job 16:11
Ver. 11. Cheek. His friends seemed so enraged, as to be disposed to do so. C.
--- These expressions were strikingly verified in Christ. M. --- The outrages may also be attributed to the devil; (C.) or, by personification, to the malady of Job.
M.
↑ 11Job 16:14
Ver. 14. Lances. Heb. "archers." Sept. "they have encompassed me, throwing lances into my veins, or loins, not sparing," &c. H. --- Bowels. Heb. and Sept.
"gall," being afflicted with a dysentery. S. Thomas explains it of his children, who were slain. H.
↑ 14Job 16:16
Ver. 16. Flesh. Heb. "horn." Sept. "strength." H. --- I have lost all my beauty and splendor, and have put on the garments of penance. C.
↑ 16Job 16:17
Ver. 17. Dim. Heb. and Sept. "covered with the shadow of death," (H.) greatly impaired. Some have almost lost their sight by weeping; and death seemed ready to close Job's eyes. C.
↑ 17Job 16:18
Ver. 18. Hand, which has not been defiled with any injustice. M. --- When. Heb.
"and my prayer was pure." I never neglected this sacred duty, (C. i. 5.) as my friends accuse me. C. xv. 4. H. ---
They continued in their false accusation: so he repeats the same true answer.
W.
↑ 18Job 16:19
Ver. 19. In thee. Let the cry of my blood, which issues from my wounds, and the injury which my reputation has suffered, come before the throne of God.
Calumny is a species of murder. See Gen. iv. 10. C. --- If I be really guilty, I am willing to remain unburied. Let the dogs lick up my blood. Cajet. --- Cry. Let the hills re-echo my sufferings. Pineda.
Et quodcumque meæ possunt narrare querelæ,
Cogar ad argutas dicere solus aves. Propertius.
↑ 19Job 16:21
Ver. 21. Full. Heb. "scorners." Therefore I appeal to inanimate things; and, above all, to God, who cannot give a wrong judgment.
↑ 21Job 16:22
Ver. 22. Judged. Heb. "might plead." H. --- Earthly judges may be compelled to pronounce sentence publicly. Job is afraid lest the justice of his cause should remain undecided, till death overtook him, v. 23. Pineda.
↑ 22Job 16:23
Ver. 23. Years. Heb. and Sept. "of number." Pauperis est numerare pecus. H. ---
Like a man under affliction, Job repeats what he had said. C. xiv. 5. M. and C. x.
20. H.
↑ 23License: 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