_God. Eliu being greatly mortified at Job's silence, uses still more provoking expressions, and pretends to refute one of the holy man's assertions, which never escaped his lips, though he had complained that God treated him as an enemy, and with more severity than his sins deserved; (chap. vi. 2.;... [ Continue Reading ]
_Please thee, since thou punishest the guiltless. (Menochius) --- If I sin. Job had not said so, but it seemed to follow from his expressions, chap. xxi. 7. See chap. xxii. 3. Whether sin be committed and punished, or not, what does it profit God? (Calmet) --- His sovereign perfections require that... [ Continue Reading ]
_Thee. I will shew that you are all wrong. (Haydock) --- I will supply what the three have left imperfect. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Thee. Thy sin cannot hurt, nor thy virtue add any thing to God. He is not therefore actuated by resentment, or jealousy, but by justice. (Calmet) --- He revenges the injury done by the sinner to himself, ver. 8. (St. Augustine, Confessions iii. 8.) --- The inference is therefore wrong, (Calmet) tha... [ Continue Reading ]
_Out. The wicked shall cry out, through vexation, but still they will not address themselves to God, ver. 10. Why are the abandoned, but because He takes cognizance of all?_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Songs. Arabic, "thoughts," by means of visions. Chaldean, "where is the Lord, in whose presence the angels sing canticles of praise in the night?" (Calmet) --- Septuagint, "who has ordered the night watches;" (Haydock) the stars, which display the power of God? His servants also are filled with int... [ Continue Reading ]
_Air: and yet the wicked make not use of their understanding, to have recourse to God under distress. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Vain. Hebrew, "falsehood." He will not relieve the hypocrite, who does not cry to him with sincerity. This conduct shews that God acts with discretion, and hears people according to their deserts. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Before him. Try whether the assertion be true. (Haydock) --- Only change thy life, and hope in him, and thou wilt see the good effects. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_For. Protestants, "But now because it is not so, he hath visited in his anger; yet he (marginal note, Job) knoweth it not, in great extremity." (Haydock) --- In this world, God punishes not with rigour. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Knowledge. I have shewn that God punishes or rewards according to our deserts, and is not indifferent about our sins. If Job have not experienced the divine bounty, it is because he has not deserved it. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
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