Job · WEB-C
Job
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“However, Job, please hear my speech, and listen to all my words. See also: Job 13:6Job 34:2Mark 4:9See now, I have opened my mouth. My tongue has spoken in my mouth. See also: Job 3:1Matthew 5:2Job 31:30My words will utter the uprightness of my heart. That which my lips know they will speak sincerely. See also: Job 27:4Proverbs 20:151 Thessalonians 2:3-4The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life. See also: Job 32:8Genesis 2:7Job 27:3If you can, answer me. Set your words in order before me, and stand up. See also: Job 33:32-33Job 32:1Job 13:18Behold, I am toward God even as you are. I am also formed out of the clay. See also: Job 4:19Job 10:92 Corinthians 5:1Behold, my terror will not make you afraid, neither will my pressure be heavy on you. See also: Job 13:21Job 9:34Psalms 32:4“Surely you have spoken in my hearing, I have heard the voice of your words, saying, See also: Deuteronomy 13:14Jeremiah 29:23‘I am clean, without disobedience. I am innocent, neither is there iniquity in me. See also: Job 10:7Job 16:17Job 11:4Behold, he finds occasions against me. He counts me for his enemy. See also: Job 19:11Job 13:24-25Job 14:16He puts my feet in the stocks. He marks all my paths.’ See also: Job 13:27Job 31:4Jeremiah 20:2“Behold, I will answer you. In this you are not just, for God is greater than man. See also: Job 36:5Ezekiel 18:25Ecclesiastes 7:20Why do you strive against him, because he doesn’t give account of any of his matters? See also: Job 40:2Isaiah 45:9Romans 11:34For God speaks once, yes twice, though man pays no attention. See also: Proverbs 1:242 Chronicles 33:10Psalms 62:11In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls on men, in slumbering on the bed, See also: Numbers 12:6Job 4:13Genesis 20:3then he opens the ears of men, and seals their instruction, See also: Job 36:10Job 36:15Psalms 40:6that he may withdraw man from his purpose, and hide pride from man. See also: James 4:10Isaiah 2:11Job 17:11He keeps back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword. See also: Job 33:28Job 33:30Romans 2:4“He is chastened also with pain on his bed, with continual strife in his bones, See also: Job 30:17Job 5:17-181 Corinthians 11:32so that his life abhors bread, and his soul dainty food. See also: Job 3:24Psalms 107:17-18Amos 5:11His flesh is so consumed away that it can’t be seen. His bones that were not seen stick out. See also: Job 19:20Job 13:28Job 7:5Yes, his soul draws near to the pit, and his life to the destroyers. See also: 2 Samuel 24:16Job 33:28Job 17:1“If there is beside him an angel, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to show to man what is right for him, See also: Malachi 3:1Ecclesiastes 7:282 Corinthians 5:20then God is gracious to him, and says, ‘Deliver him from going down to the pit, I have found a ransom.’ See also: Psalms 49:7-8Job 33:181 Peter 1:18-19His flesh will be fresher than a child’s. He returns to the days of his youth. See also: Psalms 103:52 Kings 5:14Joshua 14:10-11He prays to God, and he is favorable to him, so that he sees his face with joy. He restores to man his righteousness. See also: Psalms 50:15Psalms 30:5Acts 2:28He sings before men, and says, ‘I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it didn’t profit me. See also: Romans 6:212 Samuel 12:13Psalms 14:2He has redeemed my soul from going into the pit. My life will see the light.’ See also: Job 33:24Job 3:16Job 3:9“Behold, God does all these things, twice, yes three times, with a man, See also: 1 Corinthians 12:6Ephesians 1:11Philippians 2:13to bring back his soul from the pit, that he may be enlightened with the light of the living. See also: Psalms 56:13Isaiah 38:17Psalms 40:1-2Mark well, Job, and listen to me. Hold your peace, and I will speak. See also: Job 18:2Job 13:6Job 32:11If you have anything to say, answer me. Speak, for I desire to justify you. See also: Job 15:4-5Job 21:27Job 22:5-9If not, listen to me. Hold your peace, and I will teach you wisdom.” See also: Psalms 34:11Proverbs 5:1-2Proverbs 8:5
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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)22 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 33:3
Ver. 3. Sentence. Some Edit. have scientiam, "knowledge," with the Heb. C.
↑ 3Job 33:4
Ver. 4. Spirit. We are therefore equal. M. --- Thou canst not fear being overpowered with the divine majesty, in this dispute. C. xiii. 21. C. --- Life. Sept.
"instruction." H.
↑ 4Job 33:6
Ver. 6. Formed. Job had expressed a desire to plead before a man. C. ix. 32.
and xiii. 19. and xxxi. 35. Eliu offers himself to maintain the cause of God. C.
↑ 6Job 33:7
Ver. 7. Wonder ( miraculum. ) Heb. "terror," (H.) in allusion to Job's words. C.
ix. 34. ---
Eloquence. Heb. "hand." C. --- Sept. "the dread of me shall not cast thee down, nor my hand be heavy upon thee." Arrogant men esteem their own observations as something wonderful. S.
Greg. W.
↑ 7Job 33:9
Ver. 9. In me. Job had not said so in express terms, though he had said something to the same purpose. But he had sufficiently explained himself, and Eliu could not be ignorant that he only meant that his present sufferings were not proportioned to his guilt. C.
↑ 9Job 33:10
Ver. 10. Complaints. Something similar had indeed come from Job's lips; (C.
xiv. 17. and xx.
21.) not that he pretended that God sought to find him guilty without cause; but he meant that He treated him as an enemy, for some secret purpose. C.
↑ 10Job 33:11
Ver. 11. Stocks. C. xiii.14. and xiv. 16. Eliu interprets the words in the worst sense, though Job had only expostulated with God on the treatment which he received, testifying a great love and confidence in him. He acknowledges some want of knowledge. C. xlii. 3. C.
↑ 11Job 33:12
Ver. 12. Man: so that he is not obliged to explain his reasons. M.
↑ 12Job 33:13
Ver. 13. Because. Sept. "Thou hast said, Why has not He heard every word of my pleading or judgment." Aquila and Theod. "for all his words are unanswerable." Prot. "He giveth not account of any of his matters." H.
↑ 13Job 33:14
Ver. 14. Time. One decision ought to suffice; and God had declared Job innocent. C. i. 8. &c.
W. --- His decrees are immutable; and yet thou wouldst have him to explain his conduct, as if he could be under a mistake, and correct it. He manifests his will, and it is our business to be attentive. We cannot expect that he should speak twice, though he does so frequently in his great mercy. Heb. "God speaketh once, and he regardeth not a second time." C. --- Sept. "But the second time, (15) a dream," &c. H. --- Eliu specifies three methods by which God declares his will; (v. 26) 1. By vision; 2. by afflictions; 3. by the voice of angels, or of preachers, v. 19. 23.
↑ 14Job 33:15
Ver. 15. Beds. It seems prophetic dreams were not then uncommon.
↑ 15Job 33:16
Ver. 16. Instructeth. Heb. "sealing," that they may not mistake such a favour for a common dream. C.
↑ 16Job 33:17
Ver. 17. Him. Sept. "his body from the fall [of iniquity.]" Grabe. H.
↑ 17Job 33:19
Ver. 19. Also. This is the second method of instruction. Eliu pretends that Job had thus been visited by God, and had not understood his meaning.
↑ 19Job 33:21
Ver. 21. Bare. The skin will scarcely cover them. He will appear ghastly, like a skeleton. C. ---
Heb. "his bones...shall stick out." Prot. H.
↑ 21Job 33:22
Ver. 22. Destroyers; the worms in the grave, (H.) or to sickness, (M.) "which bring on death."
Pagnin mortiferis.
↑ 22Job 33:23
Ver. 23. Angel, by secret inspirations, (S. Tho. T. &c.) or a man sent by God, to announce the truths of salvation. Mariana. --- Man's, or "to man." C. --- Heb. "a messenger with him, an interpreter, one...to declare to man his uprightness."
Prot. (H.) "If there be any merit in him, the angel comforter, chosen from a thousand accusers, is ready to declare to the son of man his rectitude." Sept.
"If there be a thousand destroying angels, not one of them shall hurt him; if the consider in his heart to be converted unto the Lord. Though he (the angel) lay before man his reproof, and shew his folly, He (God) will take hold of him, that he may not die. He will renew his flesh as the plaster of a wall, and fill his bones with marrow: (25) he will make his flesh soft, like that of an infant, and will place him in manhood among men." H. --- But this is different from the Heb. C. --- The intercession of angels is very powerful. The are represented as suggesting motives, which prevail on God to shew mercy, v. 24. H.
↑ 23Job 33:25
Ver. 25. Consumed. Heb. "fresher than a child's," (H.) as was the case of Naaman. 4 K. v. 14.
↑ 25Job 33:26
Ver. 26. And he. It is ambiguous whether this refer to God or to man. C. --- But both shall see each other with joy. The penitent will be restored to as much favour as if he had never sinned. H.
↑ 26Job 33:29
Ver. 29. Times, or often. God instructs man by visions, sickness, and the intercession and inspirations of angels, v. 14. C.
↑ 29Job 33:30
Ver. 30. Living, both soul and body, delivering them from adversity. C.
↑ 30Job 33:32
Ver. 32. Just, and to be so indeed. M. --- How much would his vanity be mortified, when Job answered him only with silence! (H.) though he urged him to reply so often. W.
↑ 32License: 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