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“My spirit is consumed. My days are extinct and the grave is ready for me. See also: Isaiah 38:10-14 Psalms 88:3-5 Job 19:17Surely there are mockers with me. My eye dwells on their provocation. See also: 1 Samuel 1:6-7 Job 12:4 Job 16:20“Now give a pledge. Be collateral for me with yourself. Who is there who will strike hands with me? See also: Proverbs 11:15 Isaiah 38:14 Hebrews 7:22For you have hidden their heart from understanding, therefore you will not exalt them. See also: Matthew 11:25 Matthew 13:11 2 Samuel 17:14He who denounces his friends for plunder, even the eyes of his children will fail. See also: Psalms 12:2-3 Proverbs 29:5 Proverbs 20:19“But he has made me a byword of the people. They spit in my face. See also: Job 30:9 Psalms 44:14 Isaiah 5:12My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow. All my members are as a shadow. See also: Psalms 6:7 Job 16:16 Psalms 31:9-10Upright men will be astonished at this. The innocent will stir himself up against the godless. See also: Ecclesiastes 5:8 Habakkuk 1:13 Romans 11:33Yet the righteous will hold to his way. He who has clean hands will grow stronger and stronger. See also: Proverbs 4:18 Isaiah 1:15-16 Job 22:30But as for you all, come back. I will not find a wise man among you. See also: Job 6:29 Job 42:7 Job 12:2My days are past. My plans are broken off, as are the thoughts of my heart. See also: Job 7:6 Isaiah 38:10 Proverbs 16:9They change the night into day, saying ‘The light is near’ in the presence of darkness. See also: Job 7:13-14 Job 7:3-4 Job 24:14-16If I look for Sheol as my house, if I have spread my couch in the darkness, See also: Job 10:21-22 Job 3:13 Job 14:14if I have said to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ and ‘My sister,’ See also: Psalms 16:10 Psalms 49:9 Job 30:30where then is my hope? As for my hope, who will see it? See also: Job 13:15 Job 4:6 Job 6:11Shall it go down with me to the gates of Sheol, or descend together into the dust?” See also: Job 3:17-19 Jonah 2:6 Psalms 143:7

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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)15 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 17:1

Ver. 1. Spirit. Heb. "breath is corrupt," (H.) or spent. I cannot breathe without the greatest difficulty. C. --- Only. Sept. "But I want the grave, and do not obtain it." H.

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Job 17:2

Ver. 2. Not sinned. That is, I am not guilty of such sins as they charge me with.

Ch. --- Heb. "the wicked were not with me" in friendship at any time. Prot. " Are there not mockers with me?" H.

--- Job was doubly afflicted, with corporal pain and calumny: yet hopeth in God. W.

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Job 17:3

Ver. 3. Fight. I am secure under thy protection. Heb. "who will strike hands with me?" or stand bondsman for my debt? Prov. vi. 1. Who will take my place? You accuse me of weakness and of impiety: but how would you act, if you were treated in the same manner? C.

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Job 17:4

Ver. 4. Understanding. They will not answer for me. They are not of such a generous disposition; nor can they distinguish between the punishment of guilt and the trial of virtue. C.

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Job 17:5

Ver. 5. He. My friend. C. --- Heb. "speaketh flattery," (H.) or promiseth to caress me, while he neglects his own children. But the sense of the Vulg. and Chal.

seem preferable. My friends speak as if they could do any thing, and as if no trial would stagger their resolution. But they durst not be in my situation for a short time. C. --- Like hunters, who have promised their children some prey, my friends will not, however, gain the victory over me. M.

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Job 17:6

Ver. 6. Example. Prot. "a tabret." H. --- The people sing over my misfortune.

Lam. iii. 14. I am represented as a victim of God's just indignation. C. --- Sept.

"a laughter," or laughing-stock. H.

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Job 17:7

Ver. 7. Indignation of God, or of myself. M. --- Nothing. Heb. "as a shadow." C.

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Job 17:8

Ver. 8. Hypocrite. If you condemn me, I shall comfort myself with the approbation of the righteous, and still maintain my station. H. --- Men of sense and virtue will tremble at the judgments of God, and will never join the crowd of scoffers. C.

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Job 17:10

Ver. 10. Man. He offers to dispute with them again, and convince them of folly; (M.) or rather he here concludes his address to them, and invites them to change their preposterous judgments.

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Job 17:11

Ver. 11. Thoughts, or fine projects of living happy a long time. C.

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Job 17:12

Ver. 12. Day. Sleep flees from me. M. --- All is in confusion. --- After. Heb. and Sept. "light is near in the face of darkness." H. --- I still hope for relief.

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Job 17:13

Ver. 13. Hell. Seol. The region of the dead. Ch. --- Prot. "grave." H. --- But this text proves that there was a place of rest called hell. W. --- He speaks here chiefly of the body. C. --- Mors ultima linea rerum est. Hor. --- "Death is the end of all." H. --- If I refrain from complaining, still I cannot expect to be restored to health.

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Job 17:14

Ver. 14. Sister. I am nearly related to such things, and ready to drop into the grave, as my flesh is already devoured by worms. M.

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Job 17:15

Ver. 15. Who. Heb. "who shall see my hope?" I wish all might witness it. H. ---

But I expect no redress on this side of the grave. C.

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Job 17:16

Ver. 16. Deepest pit. Literally hell. Ch. --- Heb. "We shall go down to the bars of the pit, when we shall rest together in the dust." My hope may be frustrated by death; (H.) or you, my friends, must also go to the house of eternity. C.

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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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