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“Call now; is there any who will answer you? To which of the holy ones will you turn? See also: Job 15:15 Job 15:8-10 Job 4:18For resentment kills the foolish man, and jealousy kills the simple. See also: Ecclesiastes 7:9 Hosea 7:11 Psalms 14:1I have seen the foolish taking root, but suddenly I cursed his habitation. See also: Psalms 73:18-20 Psalms 92:7 Job 27:8His children are far from safety. They are crushed in the gate. Neither is there any to deliver them, See also: Psalms 127:5 Psalms 119:155 Job 18:16-19whose harvest the hungry eat up, and take it even out of the thorns. The snare gapes for their substance. See also: Lamentations 2:16 Hosea 8:7 Jeremiah 51:44For affliction doesn’t come out of the dust, neither does trouble spring out of the ground; See also: Isaiah 45:7 1 Samuel 6:9 Job 34:29but man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward. See also: Job 14:1 Genesis 3:17-19 Ecclesiastes 5:15-17“But as for me, I would seek God. I would commit my cause to God, See also: Psalms 50:15 Job 22:21 Psalms 37:5who does great things that can’t be fathomed, marvelous things without number; See also: Psalms 40:5 Job 9:10 Psalms 86:10who gives rain on the earth, and sends waters on the fields; See also: Acts 14:17 Jeremiah 5:24 Psalms 147:8so that he sets up on high those who are low, those who mourn are exalted to safety. See also: Psalms 113:7 Psalms 107:41 Luke 6:21He frustrates the plans of the crafty, so that their hands can’t perform their enterprise. See also: Psalms 21:11 Psalms 33:10-11 Isaiah 8:10He takes the wise in their own craftiness; the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong. See also: 1 Corinthians 3:19 Psalms 9:15-16 Psalms 7:15-16They meet with darkness in the day time, and grope at noonday as in the night. See also: Job 12:25 Deuteronomy 28:29 Isaiah 59:10But he saves from the sword of their mouth, even the needy from the hand of the mighty. See also: Psalms 35:10 Psalms 140:12 Psalms 109:31So the poor has hope, and injustice shuts her mouth. See also: Psalms 107:42 Psalms 63:11 1 Samuel 2:8-9“Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects. Therefore do not despise the chastening of the Almighty. See also: James 1:12 Psalms 94:12 Proverbs 3:11-12For he wounds and binds up. He injures and his hands make whole. See also: Hosea 6:1 Deuteronomy 32:39 Isaiah 30:26He will deliver you in six troubles; yes, in seven no evil will touch you. See also: Psalms 34:19 1 Corinthians 10:13 Psalms 91:3-10In famine he will redeem you from death; in war, from the power of the sword. See also: Psalms 33:19 Hosea 13:14 Genesis 45:7You will be hidden from the scourge of the tongue, neither will you be afraid of destruction when it comes. See also: Psalms 31:20 Psalms 91:5-7 Proverbs 12:18You will laugh at destruction and famine, neither will you be afraid of the animals of the earth. See also: Ezekiel 34:25 Isaiah 35:9 Psalms 91:13For you will be allied with the stones of the field. The animals of the field will be at peace with you. See also: Leviticus 26:6 Daniel 6:22 Isaiah 11:6-9You will know that your tent is in peace. You will visit your fold, and will miss nothing. See also: Psalms 121:7-8 Psalms 91:10 Job 8:6You will know also that your offspring will be great, your offspring as the grass of the earth. See also: Psalms 112:2 Psalms 72:16 Deuteronomy 28:4You will come to your grave in a full age, like a shock of grain comes in its season. See also: Proverbs 9:11 Job 42:16-17 Psalms 91:16Behold, we have researched it. It is so. Hear it, and know it for your good.” See also: Psalms 111:2 Proverbs 9:12 Job 32:11-12

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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)14 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 5:1

Ver. 1. Saints. This is a proof of the invocation of the saints (C.) and angels. H.

--- The Jews often begged God to have mercy on them for the sake of the patriarchs. 2 Par. vi. 42. C. ---

Eliphaz, therefore, exhorts Job, if he have any patron or angel, to bring him forward in his defence. M. --- Sept. "Invoke now if any one will hear thee, or if thou perceive any of the holy angels," (H.) as I have done. M. --- He extols himself, to correct the pretended presumption of his friend, (C.) and other defects, which none will dare to deny, as he supposes. See S. Greg. v. 30.

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Job 5:2

Ver. 2. Foolish and...little, here denote the wicked, as in the book of Proverbs.

C. --- He accuses Job of anger (M.) and folly. C.

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Job 5:3

Ver. 3. And I. Sept. "But presently their subsistence was eaten up." I envied not their riches: but judged they would soon end. H.

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Job 5:4

Ver. 4. Gate, in judgment. M.

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Job 5:6

Ver. 6. Ground. If you had not sinned, you would not suffer. C.

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Job 5:7

Ver. 7. Bird. Heb. "sparks fly up." H. --- You can no more then expect to pass unpunished, since it is impossible for man to be innocent! (C.) and, at any rate, labour is inevitable. M. --- We must gain our bread by the sweat of our brow. W.

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Job 5:8

Ver. 8. I will, or if I were in your place, I would sue for pardon. C. --- Prot. "I would seek unto God," (H.) under affliction. M.

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Job 5:15

Ver. 15. Mouth; detraction and calumny. C.

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Job 5:19

Ver. 19. In six, mentioned below; (M.) or in many, indefinitely. C. --- Both during the six days of (M.) life, and at death, God's grace delivers us. S. Greg. W.

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Job 5:21

Ver. 21. Scourge. Ecclus. (xxvi. 9. and xxviii. 21.) has the same expression. See Jam. iii. 6. C.

--- Calamity, from robbers, as the Heb. shod, (H.) intimates. The word is rendered destruction, vastitate, v. 22. M.

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Job 5:23

Ver. 23. Stones, so as not to stumble; or, the rocks will be a retreat for thee.

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Job 5:24

Ver. 24. Beauty does not mean his wife, as some grossly imagine, (C.) but a house well ordered.

M. --- Heb. "thy habitation." Yet Sanchez adopts the former sentiment. In effect, the habitation includes all the regulation of a wife and family. H.

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Job 5:26

Ver. 26. Abundance. "With loud lamentations." De Dieu. --- "In full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in its season." Prot. --- After a life spent in happiness, thy memory will not be obliterated.

Many shall bewail thy loss. H.

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Job 5:27

Ver. 27. Which thou. Sept. "And what we have heard: but do thou reflect with thyself what thou hast done." H. --- What had been revealed to Eliphaz was very true. Yet his conclusions were unwarrantable. C. --- How confidently does he speak of his own knowledge, and how great must have been his disappointment, when God condemned him of folly, and sent him to be the prayers of that very man whom he now considered as a wretched sinner! H.

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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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