Cursed his day. Job cursed the day of his birth, not by way of wishing evil to any thing of God's creation; but only to express in a stronger manner his sense of human miseries in general, and of his own calamities in particular. (Challoner) --- He has these only in view: though, in another light, i... [ Continue Reading ]
_Praise, by the appearance of the stars, chap. xxxviii. 7. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Day. The nations of Ethiopia, under the line, curse the sun as their greatest enemy. (Strabo xvii.) (Pliny, [Natural History?] v. 8.) --- They also brave the fury of the leviathan or crocodile, chap. xl. 27., and xli. 1., and Psalm lxxiii. 14. The natives of Tentyra, upon the Nile, were supposed to... [ Continue Reading ]
_Nor took. Septuagint, "for it would then have freed my eyes from labour."_... [ Continue Reading ]
_In the. Hebrew, "from the womb," (Haydock) or as soon as I was born. (Calmet) --- He seems to have lost sight of original sin, (ver. 1.) or there might be some method of having it remitted to children unborn, which we do not know. (Haydock)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Knees, by my father or grandfather, Genesis xxx 3. (Homer, Iliad ix.) (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
CHAPTER III. _ Sleep. So death is often styled. Olli dura quies oculos et ferreus urget_ Somnus: in æternam clauduntur lumina noctem. (Virgil, \'c6neid x.)... [ Continue Reading ]
_Consuls. Hebrew, "counsellors," or any in great authority. Septuagint, "kings, the counsellors of the land, who rejoiced, boasting of their swords." The same word, choraboth, (Haydock) means both swords and solitudes. (Du Hamel) --- Those great ones had prepared their own tombs, which were usually... [ Continue Reading ]
_Houses, while alive; (Calmet) or their tombs were thus enriched with silver, (Menochius) as this practice was not uncommon, ver. 22. (Josephus, [Antiquities?] xiii. 15.) --- Marcian forbade it. St. Chrysostom complains it subsisted in his time. (Orat. Annæ.) (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Light; dying in the womb. He expresses a desire that he had been thus prevented from feeling his present miseries and danger of sin. (Haydock)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Tumult. In the grave they can no longer disturb the world. (Menochius) --- In strength. Septuagint, "in body." Both heroes and labourers then find rest, (Calmet) if they have lived virtuously. (Haydock)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Bound in chains, like incorrigible slaves, (Calmet) or debtors. (Cocceius.) --- These were formerly treated with great severity, Luke xii. 59. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Not. The feel the same eagerness for death as those who seek for a treasure; (Calmet) and when death is at hand, they rejoice no less than those who discover a grave, in which they hope to find some riches, ver. 15, 22._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Grave, full of stores, or the place where they may repose. (Haydock)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_To. Why is life given to? &c. The uncertainty whether a man be worthy of love or hatred, (Ecclesiastes ix. 1.) and whether he will persevere to the end, is what fills Job with distress; though we must trust that God will suffer none to be tempted above their strength, 1 Corinthians x. 13. --- He fi... [ Continue Reading ]
_Sigh, through difficulty of swallowing, (Pineda) or sense of misery. (Haydock)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Fear. In prosperity he feared the assaults of pride. Now he is in danger of yielding to impatience and despair. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Dissembled my sufferings, making no complaint, not only during the seven days that his friends had been with him, but long before. Hebrew and Septuagint, "I was not in safety, nor at rest; neither was I indolent: (Haydock; in the administration of affairs. Calmet) yet trouble came." (Haydock) --- I... [ Continue Reading ]