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Job
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Then Job answered, “How have you helped him who is without power! How have you saved the arm that has no strength! See also: Job 4:3-4Isaiah 35:3-41 Kings 18:27How have you counseled him who has no wisdom, and plentifully declared sound knowledge! See also: Psalms 49:1-4Job 12:3Job 38:2To whom have you uttered words? Whose spirit came out of you? See also: 1 Kings 22:23-24Job 32:181 Corinthians 12:3“The departed spirits tremble, those beneath the waters and all that live in them. See also: Genesis 6:4Psalms 88:10Job 41:1-34Sheol is naked before God, and Abaddon has no covering. See also: Proverbs 15:11Psalms 139:8Hebrews 4:13He stretches out the north over empty space, and hangs the earth on nothing. See also: Job 9:8Isaiah 40:22Psalms 104:2-5He binds up the waters in his thick clouds, and the cloud is not burst under them. See also: Proverbs 30:4Job 37:11-16Jeremiah 10:13He encloses the face of his throne, and spreads his cloud on it. See also: Psalms 97:2Job 22:14Exodus 20:21He has described a boundary on the surface of the waters, and to the confines of light and darkness. See also: Proverbs 8:29Job 38:8-11Jeremiah 5:22The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his rebuke. See also: 1 Samuel 2:8Haggai 2:21Psalms 18:7He stirs up the sea with his power, and by his understanding he strikes through Rahab. See also: Isaiah 51:15Jeremiah 31:35Isaiah 51:9By his Spirit the heavens are garnished. His hand has pierced the swift serpent. See also: Isaiah 27:1Psalms 104:30Psalms 74:13-14Behold, these are but the outskirts of his ways. How small a whisper do we hear of him! But the thunder of his power who can understand?” See also: Isaiah 40:26-29Psalms 145:3Job 11:7-9
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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)11 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 26:4
Ver. 4. Life. Sept. also seem to understand this of God. C. --- Job does not blame his friends for undertaking to approve the ways of Providence, but for condemning himself (S. Chrys.) rashly, (H.) and, with an air of haughtiness, endeavouring to restrain him from pleading his cause before the divine tribunal. M. --- Heb. "Whose spirit came from thee?" Prot. (H.) Did I receive my life, or do I seek advice from thee? C. --- God stood in no need of Baldad's wisdom (W.) no more than Job. H.
↑ 4Job 26:5
Ver. 5. With them. The less and greater fishes, (M.) or rather the giants and others who were buried in the waters of the deluge, and are confined in the dungeons of hell. The poets speak in the same manner.
" Hic genus antiquum terræ, Titania pubes,
Fulmine dejecti fundo voluntur in imo.
Aliis sub gurgite vasto,
Infectum eluitur scelus aut exuritur igni. " Æn. vi.
--- Homer (Iliad viii.) and Hesiod (Theog.) place the giants at the extremity of the earth, in the utmost darkness. See also Prov. ix. 18. Isai. xiv. 9. C.
↑ 5Job 26:6
Ver. 6. Hell. The grave. --- Destruction. Heb. abaddon. H. --- S. John (Apoc. ix.
11.) styles the bottomless abyss; (C.) or its angel, (H.) Abaddon, or Apollyon. It may here be called destruction, (C.) as all its victims are lost for ever to every thing that is good. The obscurity of the grave, and even that of hell, can hide nothing from God.
↑ 6Job 26:7
Ver. 7. North pole, which alone was visible in Idumea, and continued unmoved, while all the stars performed their revolutions. C. --- Nothing. Terra, pilæ similis, nullo fulcimine nixa. Ovid, Fast. vi. C. --- All tends to the centre, (M.) by the laws of attraction. Newton, &c. H.
↑ 7Job 26:8
Ver. 8. Clouds, as in a vessel or garment. Prov. xxx. 4.
↑ 8Job 26:9
Ver. 9. Over it. The firmament, with all its beauty, is but like a cloud, to conceal from our feeble eyes the splendor of God's throne.
↑ 9Job 26:10
Ver. 10. End. Till the end of the world, the ocean will respect these limits. H. ---
The ancients looked upon it as a continual miracle that the world was not deluged, as the waters are higher than the earth. Jer. v. 22. Amos v. 8. S. Bas.
and S. Amb. Hexem. Cicero, Nat. ii. --- Philosophers have explained this phenomenon. But it is still certain that the power and wisdom of God preserve the equilibrium, without which all would return to the ancient chaos. C.
↑ 10Job 26:11
Ver. 11. Heaven. The mountains are so styled by Pindar; and the poets represent them supporting the heavens. Totum ferre potest humeris minitantibus orbem. Petron. --- Yet others understand that power which keeps all things together, (C.) or the angels, to whose rule the ancients attributed the celestial bodies. S. Greg. Ven. Bede, &c.
↑ 11Job 26:12
Ver. 12. Together, at the beginning. Gen. i. 9. Heb. "By his strength he has divided the sea; and by his wisdom he has pierced the proud, or Egypt."
Rahab, (H.) or Rachab, is often put for Egypt; (Ps. lxxxviii. 11.) and all would naturally have concluded that the fall of Pharao was pointed at, if it had not been supposed that Job lived before that event. That is, however, dubious.
Isaias (li. 9.) uses the same terms in describing the fall of this tyrant. C. --- Yet the Sept. translate,
"the whale," (H.) or some sea monster, which God holds in subjection, (Pineda) like the weakest creature. H. --- The foaming billows (M.) are likewise subject to his control. H.
↑ 12Job 26:13
Ver. 13. Heavens, with stars, &c. Ps. xxxii. 6. Wisd. i. 7. God also sends winds to disperse the clouds, that the heavens may appear. C. --- Artful, ( obstetricante) "being the midwife." The least things are ruled by Providence.
W. --- Serpent; a constellation, lightning, the devil, or rather the leviathan. Isai.
xxvii. 1. Drusius. C. --- Sept. "by his decree, he killed the apostate dragon." H.
--- But there is no need of having recourse to allegory. C.
↑ 13Job 26:14
Ver. 14. Drop. This comparison is often applied to speech. Deut. xxxii. 2. Isai.
lv. 10. If the little that we know of God's works give us such an exalted idea of his greatness, what should we think if we could fully comprehend his mysteries? C.
↑ 14License: 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