Job 33:3
_Sentence. Some editions have scientiam, "knowledge," with the Hebrew. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Sentence. Some editions have scientiam, "knowledge," with the Hebrew. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Spirit. We are therefore equal. (Menochius) --- Thou canst not fear being overpowered with the divine majesty, in this dispute, chap. xiii. 21. (Calmet) --- Life. Septuagint, "instruction." (Haydock)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Formed. Job had expressed a desire to plead before a man, chap. ix. 32., and xiii. 19., and xxxi. 35. Eliu offers himself to maintain the cause of God. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Wonder ( miraculum.) Hebrew, "terror," (Haydock) in allusion to Job's words, chap. ix. 34. --- Eloquence. Hebrew, "hand." (Calmet) --- Septuagint, "the dread of me shall not cast thee down, nor my hand be heavy upon thee." Arrogant men esteem their own observations as something wonderful. (St. Greg... [ Continue Reading ]
_In me. Job had not said so in express terms, though he had said something to the same purpose. But he had sufficiently explained himself, and Eliu could not be ignorant that he only meant that his present sufferings were not proportioned to his guilt. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Complaints. Something similar had indeed come from Job's lips; (chap. xiv. 17., and xx. 21.) not that he pretended that God sought to find him guilty without cause; but he meant that He treated him as an enemy, for some secret purpose. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Stocks. Chap. xiii.14., and xiv. 16. Eliu interprets the words in the worst sense, though Job had only expostulated with God on the treatment which he received, testifying a great love and confidence in him. He acknowledges some want of knowledge, chap. xlii. 3. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Man: so that he is not obliged to explain his reasons. (Menochius)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Because. Septuagint, "Thou hast said, Why has not He heard every word of my pleading or judgment." Aquila and Theodotion, "for all his words are unanswerable." Protestants, "He giveth not account of any of his matters." (Haydock)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Time. One decision ought to suffice; and God had declared Job innocent, chap. i. 8., &c. (Worthington) --- His decrees are immutable; and yet thou wouldst have him to explain his conduct, as if he could be under a mistake, and correct it. He manifests his will, and it is our business to be attentiv... [ Continue Reading ]
_Beds. It seems prophetic dreams were not then uncommon._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Instructeth. Hebrew, "sealing," that they may not mistake such a favour for a common dream. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Him. Septuagint, "his body from the fall [of iniquity.] " (Grabe) (Haydock)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Also. This is the second method of instruction. Eliu pretends that Job had thus been visited by God, and had not understood his meaning._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Bare. The skin will scarcely cover them. He will appear ghastly, like a skeleton. (Calmet) --- Hebrew, "his bones....shall stick out." (Protestants) (Haydock)_... [ Continue Reading ]
CHAPTER XXXIII. _ Destroyers; the worms in the grave, (Haydock) or to sickness, (Menochius) "which bring on death." Pagnin mortiferis._... [ Continue Reading ]
Angel, by secret inspirations, (St. Thomas Aquinas; Tirinus, &c.) or a man sent by God, to announce the truths of salvation. (Mariana) --- Man's, or "to man." (Calmet) --- Hebrew, "a messenger with him, an interpreter, one....to declare to man his uprightness." Protestants, (Haydock) "If there be an... [ Continue Reading ]
_Consumed. Hebrew, "fresher than a child's," (Haydock) as was the case of Naaman, 4 Kings v. 14._... [ Continue Reading ]
_And he. It is ambiguous whether this refer to God or to man. (Calmet) --- But both shall see each other with joy. The penitent will be restored to as much favour as if he had never sinned. (Haydock)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Times, or often. God instructs man by visions, sickness, and the intercession and inspirations of angels, ver. 14. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Living, both soul and body, delivering them from adversity. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Just, and to be so indeed. (Menochius) --- How much would his vanity be mortified, when Job answered him only with silence! (Haydock) though he urged him to reply so often. (Worthington)_... [ Continue Reading ]