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Job

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Then Bildad the Shuhite answered, “Dominion and fear are with him. He makes peace in his high places. See also: Revelation 6:16 Colossians 1:20 Ephesians 2:16-17Can his armies be counted? On whom does his light not arise? See also: James 1:17 Matthew 5:45 Daniel 7:10How then can man be just with God? Or how can he who is born of a woman be clean? See also: Romans 5:1 Psalms 130:3 Job 15:14-16Behold, even the moon has no brightness, and the stars are not pure in his sight; See also: Isaiah 60:19-20 Job 15:15 Job 31:26How much less man, who is a worm, and the son of man, who is a worm!” See also: Isaiah 41:14 Psalms 22:6 Genesis 18:27

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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)5 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 25:1

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

Ver. 1. Answered. He directs his attack against Job's desiring to plead before God, and gives a wrong statement of his request, which he also attempts to refute, by urging the same inconclusive arguments as before. C. --- Blind and obstinate disputers still repeat the same objections; (W.) as Protestants do against the Catholic doctrines, which have been so often and so ably defended. H.

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Job 25:2

Ver. 2. Places. Directing all the heavenly bodies with perfect harmony. C.

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Job 25:3

Ver. 3. Soldiers. The works of the whole creation, particularly the stars and angels. M.

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Job 25:4

Ver. 4. Clean. Job had used a similar expression, as well as Eliphaz. C. iv. 17.

and xiv. 4. and xv. 15. The holy man did not assert that he was free from sin, but only that God did not punish him (C.) so dreadfully (H.) on that account, and that he has just reasons for afflicting his servants, if it were only to manifest his own power and glory. C.

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Job 25:5

Ver. 5. Sight, compared with him. The most beautiful things in nature are nothing; and of course, the most just are all imperfection, when left to themselves. 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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