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Then Bildad the Shuhite answered, See also: Job 8:1 Job 2:11 Job 25:1“How long will you hunt for words? Consider, and afterwards we will speak. See also: Proverbs 18:13 Job 13:5-6 Job 11:2Why are we counted as animals, which have become unclean in your sight? See also: Psalms 73:22 Job 17:4 Job 17:10You who tear yourself in your anger, will the earth be forsaken for you? Or will the rock be removed out of its place? See also: Job 14:18 Job 16:9 Job 5:2“Yes, the light of the wicked will be put out. The spark of his fire won’t shine. See also: Proverbs 13:9 Proverbs 20:20 Proverbs 24:20The light will be dark in his tent. His lamp above him will be put out. See also: Revelation 18:23 Job 21:17 Psalms 18:28The steps of his strength will be shortened. His own counsel will cast him down. See also: Proverbs 4:12 Psalms 18:36 Psalms 33:10For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he wanders into its mesh. See also: Psalms 9:15 Psalms 35:8 Job 22:10A snare will take him by the heel. A trap will catch him. See also: Job 1:17 Isaiah 8:14-15 Job 1:15A noose is hidden for him in the ground, a trap for him on the path. See also: Psalms 11:6 Romans 11:9 Ezekiel 12:13Terrors will make him afraid on every side, and will chase him at his heels. See also: Job 15:21 Jeremiah 6:25 Jeremiah 49:29His strength will be famished. Calamity will be ready at his side. See also: 2 Peter 2:3 1 Thessalonians 5:3 Psalms 109:10The members of his body will be devoured. The firstborn of death will devour his members. See also: Job 17:16 Genesis 49:3 Isaiah 14:30He will be rooted out of the security of his tent. He will be brought to the king of terrors. See also: Proverbs 10:28 1 Corinthians 15:55-56 Job 41:34There will dwell in his tent that which is none of his. Sulfur will be scattered on his habitation. See also: Psalms 11:6 Isaiah 34:9-10 Deuteronomy 29:23His roots will be dried up beneath. His branch will be cut off above. See also: Hosea 9:16 Isaiah 5:24 Malachi 4:1His memory will perish from the earth. He will have no name in the street. See also: Psalms 34:16 Proverbs 10:7 Psalms 109:13He will be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world. See also: Job 20:8 Job 10:22 Proverbs 14:32He will have neither son nor grandson among his people, nor any remaining where he lived. See also: Jeremiah 22:30 Isaiah 14:21-22 Job 20:26-28Those who come after will be astonished at his day, as those who went before were frightened. See also: Psalms 37:13 Jeremiah 50:27 Ezekiel 21:25Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous. This is the place of him who doesn’t know God.” See also: Jeremiah 9:3 Titus 1:16 1 Thessalonians 4:5

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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)13 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 18:2

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

Ver. 2. Understand ye. Teach this man to comprehend what we say. He deigns not to address Job in person: but repeats most of his former remarks respecting the wicked, as if they were unquestionably applicable to Job. C. viii.

C. --- Heb. "mark ye." Sept. "do thou attend." H. ---

Baldad speaks to many who might be of Job's opinion, as he was a figure of the Church, defending the common cause; while his friends, like heretics, speak both true and false things. S.

Greg. xiv. 1. W.

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Job 18:3

Ver. 3. Reputed. Sept. "silent as four-footed animals before thee? (H.) without discipline or understanding." C. xvii. 4. M.

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Job 18:4

Ver. 4. Thou. Heb. "He teareth his soul in his fury!" H. --- This is spoken with an air of contempt, as if Job were mad. C. xiii. 14. C. --- Place. We should expect to see such effects, as soon as we would allow that God punishes thee, without thy being guilty. Hitherto he has treated the wicked only with such rigour. Still thou wouldst assert that thou art a singular example of an innocent man under oppression! C.

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Job 18:6

Ver. 6. Light; prosperity, (M.) offspring, &c. C.

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Job 18:7

Ver. 7. Step. He shall be greatly embarrassed, (M.) like a man in a narrow pass, (C.) beset with thorns. H. Prov. iv. 12. --- Sept. "the weakest have made a prey of his possessions. H.

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Job 18:8

Ver. 8. Meshes, ( maculis) or holes of the net. M. --- The more he strives to get out, the more he gets entangled. C.

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Job 18:9

Ver. 9. Thirst: the greedy hunter. C. --- Heb. "the robber." H.

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Job 18:11

Ver. 11. Fears. Hunters used to place loose feathers round the wood, except where the gin was laid, in order to frighten the prey into it.

Puniceæque agitant formidine pennæ. Georg. iii.

Jer. xlviii. 44. "Like timid stags, while you avoid the moving feathers, you are entrapped in the strongest nets." S. Jerom, c. Lucif. --- Every thing tends to fill the poor beast with alarm. So the devil, conscience, and enemies on all sides, best the wicked. C.

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Job 18:13

Ver. 13. First-born denotes the best, or the worst. H. --- Death. Heb. "of death,"

the devil, or a premature death, and most cruel enemy. C. --- Sept. "But death devours his most beautiful things." H.

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Job 18:14

Ver. 14. Confidence. Sept. "health." --- Let. Prot. "and it shall bring him to the king of terrors;"

(H.) or, "thou (O God) shalt," &c. Sept. "let him be in the greatest (C.) want, on account of a royal accusation," (H.) of high treason. C.

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Job 18:15

Ver. 15. Tent, when he is gone to purify it.

Et veniat quæ lustret anus lectumque locumque,

Præferat et tremulâ sulphur et ova manu. Ovid. Art.

--- Yet Moses does not mention sulphur as a thing proper for purifications.

Some think that Baldad hints that his house will be destroyed with lightning, or rendered uninhabitable by a loathsome smell.

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Job 18:16

Ver. 16. Harvest. Heb. also, "branch;" (C.) his family, (M.) and all on which he trusted. C. ---

All must be destroyed, root and branch.

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Job 18:20

Ver. 20. Them. Lit. "the first," who were witnesses of his misery. H.

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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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