Job 2:1
_Day. Job had been under trial for some time, perhaps a year. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Day. Job had been under trial for some time, perhaps a year. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Through it. Seeking whom he might devour, 1 Peter v. 8. (Haydock)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Simple. Plain-dealing, mild, and without guile. (St. Gregory) (Worthington) --- Without cause. This may form a new sentence. (Haydock) --- Thy proposal and attempts are vain. (Calmet) --- Job has not deserved this treatment. (St. Chrysostom, &c.)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Skin: a proverbial expressing, denoting that a man will part with any thing sooner than his life, (Calmet) or health. (Haydock) --- Satan hints, that if those inestimable blessings should be endangered, (Calmet) Job would shew his real sentiments. (Haydock) --- Skin was formerly used instead of mon... [ Continue Reading ]
_Life. Afflict him with any species of illness; but do not kill him, (Calmet) nor inspire him directly with wicked thoughts. (Grotius)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Ulcer; the leprosy: and even with that species which is called the venereal disease, which may be contracted without any crime. Job was afflicted with a complication of the most painful and disgraceful disorders. (Pineda) (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
Potsherd. His nails were worn, and poverty had left him nothing else. --- Dunghill. Hebrew, "ashes." (Haydock) --- St. Chrysostom represents this place as visited by pilgrims, instructive and more brilliant than any throne. (Hom. 5. ad Pop. Ant.) -- Septuagint add, "upon the dung, without the city:... [ Continue Reading ]
_Bless. She speaks with cruel irony. (Calmet) --- Curse God, that he may take away (St. Basil) thy miserable life; or, after taking this revenge on such unjust treatment, put an end to thy own existence. Beza and Amama excuse this woman, though condemned by Job. They pretend that she only meant to i... [ Continue Reading ]
_Foolish. The same word often means impious, (chap. i. 22.) and ignorant, (Haydock) or "delirous." (Aquila) (Psalm xiii. 1.) --- Lips. The Jews assert, without reason, that he was guilty in his heart. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Heaven. This denoted mourning or indignation, Josue vii. 6., and Acts xxii. 23._... [ Continue Reading ]
Seven days, &c. They sat with him for a good part of the day, and of the night, during seven days: and spoke nothing all that time that could give him any uneasiness. (Challoner) (Menochius) (Olympiad.) --- They mourned for him as if he had been dead. Their mutual grief was too great for utterance.... [ Continue Reading ]
CHAPTER II.... [ Continue Reading ]