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Then Bildad the Shuhite answered, See also: Job 2:11“How long will you speak these things? Shall the words of your mouth be a mighty wind? See also: Job 15:2 Job 6:26 1 Kings 19:11Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert righteousness? See also: 2 Chronicles 19:7 Genesis 18:25 Deuteronomy 32:4If your children have sinned against him, he has delivered them into the hand of their disobedience. See also: Job 1:5 Job 5:4 Job 1:18-19If you want to seek God diligently, make your supplication to the Almighty. See also: James 4:7-10 Matthew 7:7-8 Hebrews 3:7-8If you were pure and upright, surely now he would awaken for you, and make the habitation of your righteousness prosperous. See also: Isaiah 51:9 Job 5:24 Isaiah 3:10Though your beginning was small, yet your latter end would greatly increase. See also: Job 42:12-13 Matthew 13:31-32 Proverbs 19:20“Please inquire of past generations. Find out about the learning of their fathers. See also: Job 15:18 Deuteronomy 32:7 Deuteronomy 4:32(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days on earth are a shadow.) See also: 1 Chronicles 29:15 Psalms 144:4 Job 14:2Shall they not teach you, tell you, and utter words out of their heart? See also: Proverbs 18:15 Matthew 12:35 Deuteronomy 11:19“Can the papyrus grow up without mire? Can the rushes grow without water? See also: Exodus 2:3 Isaiah 19:5-7While it is yet in its greenness, not cut down, it withers before any other reed. See also: Jeremiah 17:6 1 Peter 1:24 Psalms 129:6-7So are the paths of all who forget God. The hope of the godless man will perish, See also: Psalms 9:17 Job 11:20 Job 13:16whose confidence will break apart, whose trust is a spider’s web. See also: Isaiah 59:5-6He will lean on his house, but it will not stand. He will cling to it, but it will not endure. See also: Job 27:18 Luke 6:47-49 Matthew 7:24-27He is green before the sun. His shoots go out along his garden. See also: Psalms 80:11 Psalms 73:3-12 Jeremiah 11:16His roots are wrapped around the rock pile. He sees the place of stones. See also: Isaiah 5:24 Isaiah 40:24 Job 18:16If he is destroyed from his place, then it will deny him, saying, ‘I have not seen you.’ See also: Job 7:10 Job 7:8 Psalms 37:36Behold, this is the joy of his way. Out of the earth, others will spring. See also: Job 20:5 1 Samuel 2:8 Psalms 113:7“Behold, God will not cast away a blameless man, neither will he uphold the evildoers. See also: Job 4:7 Psalms 37:37 Psalms 37:24He will still fill your mouth with laughter, your lips with shouting. See also: Psalms 126:2 Genesis 21:6 Psalms 126:6Those who hate you will be clothed with shame. The tent of the wicked will be no more.” See also: Psalms 132:18 Psalms 109:29 Psalms 35:26

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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)13 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 8:1

Ver. 1. Suhite, from Sue, the son of Abraham, who dwelt in the desert Arabia; (Gen. xxv. 2.) though several suppose, without reason, (C.) that Baldad resided at Sueta, in Cœlosyria. M. ---

He was the second in age and dignity. Pineda.

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Job 8:2

Ver. 2. How long. He seems tired with hearing, (H.) and accuses Job of want of moderation, representing him as a hypocrite, (C.) and an obstinate defender of his own opinion, against the better judgment of Eliphaz; (M.) though he was in reality only a constant asserter of truth. W.

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Job 8:3

Ver. 3. Just. He begins with the same principle as Eliphaz, which nobody denied. But he does not reflect, that God may cause even the just to be afflicted, for their trial and improvement.

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Job 8:4

Ver. 4. Iniquity, and suffered them to perish. C.

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Job 8:6

Ver. 6. Peaceable. Justice and peace shall kiss. H. --- Prosperity will attend the righteous. C.

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Job 8:9

Ver. 9. That. Heb. "because our days." H. --- Baldad strives, in vain, to prove what nobody contested. But he does not come to the point, and shew that Job was guilty. Past histories might have informed him that the just are often persecuted, like Abel, Abraham, Jacob, and Joseph. C.

--- It is true, these were afterwards conforted in honour, except the first, who was slain, and better off in the other world. But Job might hope for the same treatment; and no man can be pronounced happy or miserable till his death.

After a storm a calm frequently ensues; as Baldad might have seen verified in the person of his friend, if he had waited patiently, and not judged so peremptorily from equivocal arguments. H. --- We must allow, however, that what he said had been generally true. Houbigant.

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Job 8:11

Ver. 11. Sedge-bush, or flag. Heb. achu; so called, because from one root many brothers (as it were) spring. Sept. style it Boutomon, as it was usually "cut for oxen." Gen. xli. 2. Parkhurst.

H. --- As plants die without suction, so do those who depart from God. M.

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Job 8:12

Ver. 12. Herbs, for want of moisture. C. --- Sic transit gloria mundi. H. --- The prophets often compare the prosperity of the wicked to grass, (Ps. xxxvi. 2.

Jam. i. 10.) and Baldad ranks Job with them.

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Job 8:14

Ver. 14. Him, the hypocrite, or God. C. --- Both shall one day condemn the ill use of riches. H.

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Job 8:15

Ver. 15. He. The spider, or rather the hypocrite, who will not be able to screen himself, by his possessions, from the wrath of God. C.

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Job 8:16

Ver. 16. Seemeth. Heb. "he is green before the sun" beat upon him. --- Rising, ortu, for horto, (H.) as the Heb. &c. have "garden," (M.) with some Latin editions. He had compared the wicked to a rush without moisture. But the just is like a plant in a fine garden, which is not hurt by the sun beams. It will grow even among stones, (C.) and may be transplanted without danger, v. 19.

H. --- The whole may be, however, a continuation of the former simile. The rush will presently be scorched, as if it were thrown among stones, and its place will know it no longer, v. 18. M.

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Job 8:19

Ver. 19. Joy. Sept. "the catastrophe of the wicked, for another shall spring," &c.

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Job 8:21

Ver. 21. Until. If thou be simple, (H.) or irreproachable, (C.) God will make thee exult. H. ---

Until, &c. M. --- He will restore thee to thy former state of affluence. 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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