_Understand ye. Teach this man to comprehend what we say. He deigns not to address Job in person: but repeats most of his former remarks respecting the wicked, as if they were unquestionably applicable to Job, chap. viii. (Calmet) --- Hebrew, "mark ye." Septuagint, "do thou attend." (Haydock) --- Ba... [ Continue Reading ]
_Reputed. Septuagint, "silent as four-footed animals before thee? (Haydock) without discipline or understanding," chap. xvii. 4. (Menochius)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Thou. Hebrew, "He teareth his soul in his fury!" (Haydock) --- This is spoken with an air of contempt, as if Job were mad, chap. xiii. 14. (Calmet) --- Place. We should expect to see such effects, as soon as we would allow that God punishes thee, without thy being guilty. Hitherto he has treated th... [ Continue Reading ]
_Light; prosperity, (Menochius) offspring, &c. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Step. He shall be greatly embarrassed, (Menochius) like a man in a narrow pass, (Calmet) beset with thorns. (Haydock) (Proverbs iv. 12.) --- Septuagint, "the weakest have made a prey of his possessions.["] (Haydock)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Meshes, ( maculis) or holes of the net. (Menochius) --- The more he strives to get out, the more he gets entangled. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Thirst: the greedy hunter. (Calmet) --- Hebrew, "the robber." (Haydock)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Fears. Hunters used to place loose feathers round the wood, except where the gin was laid, in order to frighten the prey into it. Puniceæque agitant formidine pennæ. (Georg. iii.)_ (Jeremias xlviii. 44.) "Like timid stags, while you avoid the moving feathers, you are entrapped in the strongest net... [ Continue Reading ]
_First-born denotes the best, or the worst. (Haydock) --- Death. Hebrew, "of death," the devil, or a premature death, and most cruel enemy. (Calmet) --- Septuagint, "But death devours his most beautiful things." (Haydock)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Confidence. Septuagint, "health." --- Let. Protestants, "and it shall bring him to the king of terrors;" (Haydock) or, "thou (O God) shalt," &c. Septuagint, "let him be in the greatest (Calmet) want, on account of a royal accusation," (Haydock) of high treason. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Tent, when he is gone to purify it. Et veniat quæ lustret anus lectumque locumque,_ Præferat et tremula sulphur et ova manu. (Ovid, Art.) --- Yet Moses does not mention sulphur as a thing proper for purifications. Some think that Baldad hints that his house will be destroyed with lightning, or re... [ Continue Reading ]
CHAPTER XVIII. _ Harvest. Hebrew also, "branch;" (Calmet) his family, (Menochius) and all on which he trusted. (Calmet) --- All must be destroyed, root and branch._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Them. Literally, "the first," who were witnesses of his misery. (Haydock)_... [ Continue Reading ]