Job · WEB-C
Job
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Then Job answered, “Even today my complaint is rebellious. His hand is heavy in spite of my groaning. See also: Job 10:1Psalms 32:4Job 7:11Oh that I knew where I might find him! That I might come even to his seat! See also: Job 16:21Jeremiah 14:7Job 13:3I would set my cause in order before him, and fill my mouth with arguments. See also: Job 13:18Daniel 9:18-19Numbers 14:13-19I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would tell me. See also: Job 10:2Job 13:22-231 Corinthians 4:3-4Would he contend with me in the greatness of his power? No, but he would listen to me. See also: 2 Corinthians 12:9-10Job 13:21Job 9:33-34There the upright might reason with him, so I should be delivered forever from my judge. See also: Job 13:3Isaiah 1:18Romans 8:1“If I go east, he is not there. If I go west, I can’t find him. See also: Job 9:11Psalms 10:1Job 35:14He works to the north, but I can’t see him. He turns south, but I can’t catch a glimpse of him. See also: Isaiah 8:17Psalms 89:46But he knows the way that I take. When he has tried me, I will come out like gold. See also: James 1:12James 1:2-41 Peter 1:7My foot has held fast to his steps. I have kept his way, and not turned away. See also: Psalms 44:182 Peter 2:20-22Psalms 17:5I haven’t gone back from the commandment of his lips. I have treasured up the words of his mouth more than my necessary food. See also: Jeremiah 15:16Psalms 119:11Psalms 119:103But he stands alone, and who can oppose him? What his soul desires, even that he does. See also: Psalms 115:3Proverbs 19:21Daniel 4:35For he performs that which is appointed for me. Many such things are with him. See also: 1 Thessalonians 3:31 Thessalonians 5:9Psalms 97:2Therefore I am terrified at his presence. When I consider, I am afraid of him. See also: Psalms 119:120Psalms 77:3Job 31:23For God has made my heart faint. The Almighty has terrified me. See also: Psalms 22:14Job 27:2Isaiah 6:5Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither did he cover the thick darkness from my face. See also: Job 19:8Isaiah 57:12 Kings 22:20
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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)10 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 23:2
Ver. 2. Bitterness. Instead of comfort, he only meets with insult from his friends. He therefore appeals to God, (W.) but with fear. C. --- Scourge, is not in Heb. M. --- But it explains the meaning of "my hand," (H.) or the heavy chastisement (S. Greg.) which I endure. M.
↑ 2Job 23:6
Ver. 6. Nor. Prot. "No, but he would put strength in me." He would enable me to stand my trial.
H. --- He would lay no falsehood to my charge.
↑ 6Job 23:7
Ver. 7. Victory. Before such a judge I should hope to be acquitted. Job must have been well convinced of his innocence. For woe to man, if God treat him according to the rigour of his justice! C. --- Sept. "For truth and reproof are with him. But, oh! that he would bring my judgment to an end." H.
↑ 7Job 23:8
Ver. 8. East, or Heb. "before...if behind I cannot perceive him." C. --- Where, then, shall I find this just judge? v. 3. H.
↑ 8Job 23:9
Ver. 9. Right, southward. --- See. The southern part of the heavens, or the antarctic stars would not be discerned in Idumea. C. ix. 9. C. --- Job speaks in a human manner, as he was not ignorant of God's immensity. M.
↑ 9Job 23:10
Ver. 10. Fire. They had not a stone, like the Greeks, to try gold. C.
↑ 10Job 23:12
Ver. 12. Lips, given to Noe, (Gen. ix. 5.) or to Moses. This work was written by a Jew, who dresses up the sentiments of Job in his own style. The holy man was also acquainted with the Mosaic dispensation, though he was not bound to observe the ceremonial part of it. C. --- His words, may, however, be verified, though he speak only of the natural law, or of that which was preserved by tradition of the patriarchs, as both proceeded from God. H. --- Hid. Prot.
"esteemed...more than my necessary food. " H. --- Sept. agree with the Vulg.
The ancients placed in their bosom what they greatly esteemed. The Turks still use it as a pocket. Thevenot xxii. C.
↑ 12Job 23:13
Ver. 13. Alone. Self-existent. Heb. "in one thing," or resolution. He is immutable: all I could say would avail nothing. C.
↑ 13Job 23:14
Ver. 14. With him, to punish me afresh. Heb. "when he shall have appointed me my portion, he shall still have many such." He may treat me as a slave, allowing me only a certain portion of meat. Prov. xxx. 8. and xxxi. 15. C.
↑ 14Job 23:17
Ver. 17. Face. My afflictions have not yet taken away my life, as might have been expected. H.
--- I am less affected with my miseries, than with the dread of God's presence, v. 15. 16. C.
↑ 17License: 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