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Job
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Moreover Elihu answered, “Do you think this to be your right, or do you say, ‘My righteousness is more than God’s,’ See also: Matthew 12:36-37Luke 19:22Job 27:2-6that you ask, ‘What advantage will it be to you? What profit will I have, more than if I had sinned?’ See also: Job 34:9Malachi 3:14Job 9:30-31I will answer you, and your companions with you. See also: Job 34:8Proverbs 13:20Look to the skies, and see. See the skies, which are higher than you. See also: Job 22:12Isaiah 55:9Isaiah 40:22-23If you have sinned, what effect do you have against him? If your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him? See also: Jeremiah 7:19Proverbs 8:36Proverbs 9:12If you are righteous, what do you give him? Or what does he receive from your hand? See also: Job 22:2-3Psalms 16:2Romans 11:35Your wickedness may hurt a man as you are, and your righteousness may profit a son of man. See also: Jonah 1:12Genesis 18:24-33Ezekiel 22:30“By reason of the multitude of oppressions they cry out. They cry for help by reason of the arm of the mighty. See also: Exodus 2:23Job 34:28Psalms 56:1-2But no one says, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night, See also: Psalms 42:8Acts 16:25Psalms 149:5who teaches us more than the animals of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?’ See also: Psalms 94:12Job 32:8Job 36:22There they cry, but no one answers, because of the pride of evil men. See also: John 9:31Proverbs 1:28Psalms 123:3-4Surely God will not hear an empty cry, neither will the Almighty regard it. See also: Proverbs 15:29James 4:3Jeremiah 11:11How much less when you say you don’t see him. The cause is before him, and you wait for him! See also: Job 9:11Micah 7:7-9Psalms 97:2But now, because he has not visited in his anger, neither does he greatly regard arrogance, See also: Psalms 89:32Luke 1:20Hosea 11:8-9therefore Job opens his mouth with empty talk, and he multiplies words without knowledge.” See also: Job 38:2Job 33:8-12Job 34:35-37
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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 35:2
Ver. 2. God. Eliu being greatly mortified at Job's silence, uses still more provoking expressions, and pretends to refute one of the holy man's assertions, which never escaped his lips, though he had complained that God treated him as an enemy, and with more severity than his sins deserved; (C. vi.
2. C.) or, that his affliction was greater than his sin. C. xxiii. 7. &c. Eliu therefore calumniates him. W.
↑ 2Job 35:3
Ver. 3. Please thee, since thou punishest the guiltless. M. --- If I sin. Job had not said so, but it seemed to follow from his expressions. C. xxi. 7. See C. xxii.
3. Whether sin be committed and punished, or not, what does it profit God? C.
--- His sovereign perfections require that he should not let sin pass unnoticed, and Job never entertained an idea to the contrary.
↑ 3Job 35:4
Ver. 4. Thee. I will shew that you are all wrong. H. --- I will supply what the three have left imperfect. C.
↑ 4Job 35:5
Ver. 5. Thee. Thy sin cannot hurt, nor thy virtue add any thing to God. He is not therefore actuated by resentment, or jealousy, but by justice. C. --- He revenges the injury done by the sinner to himself, v. 8. S. Aug. Conf. iii. 8. ---
The inference is therefore wrong, (C.) that God will not regard the sins or punishment of men, because he thence derives no profit, v. 3. H. ---
The strong sentences of Eliu agree not (or are ill-applied) to the blessed Job.
S. Greg. xxvi. 7. W.
↑ 5Job 35:9
Ver. 9. Out. The wicked shall cry out, through vexation, but still they will not address themselves to God, v. 10. Why are the abandoned, but because He takes cognizance of all?
↑ 9Job 35:10
Ver. 10. Songs. Arab. "thoughts," by means of visions. Chal. "where is the Lord, in whose presence the angels sing canticles of praise in the night?" C. ---
Sept. "who has ordered the night watches;" (H.) the stars, which display the power of God? His servants also are filled with interior joy, even in the midst of afflictions. C.
↑ 10Job 35:11
Ver. 11. Air: and yet the wicked make not use of their understanding, to have recourse to God under distress. C.
↑ 11Job 35:13
Ver. 13. Vain. Heb. "falsehood." He will not relieve the hypocrite, who does not cry to him with sincerity. This conduct shews that God acts with discretion, and hears people according to their deserts. C.
↑ 13Job 35:14
Ver. 14. Before him. Try whether the assertion be true. H. --- Only change thy life, and hope in him, and thou wilt see the good effects. C.
↑ 14Job 35:15
Ver. 15. For. Prot. "But now because it is not so, he hath visited in his anger; yet he (marg. Job) knoweth it not, in great extremity." H. --- In this world, God punishes not with rigour. C.
↑ 15Job 35:16
Ver. 16. Knowledge. I have shewn that God punishes or rewards according to our deserts, and is not indifferent about our sins. If Job have not experienced the divine bounty, it is because he has not deserved it. C.
↑ 16License: 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