_Themanite. People of this city, about twelve miles from Petra, in Arabia, were renowned for wisdom, Jeremias xlix. 7., and Baruch ii. 22. Pythagoras therefore visited this country. (St. Cyril, contra Jul. x.) --- Eliphaz attempts to prove that no innocent person is chastised. He does not speak of s... [ Continue Reading ]
_Conceived? and to which the speech of Job had given occasion. (Menochius) --- Septuagint, "Who shall bear the force of thy words? For if thou," &c. (Haydock)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Knees. It is just that thou shouldst apply thy instructions to thyself. (Menochius)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_And thou. Septuagint, "and has touched thee. But thou makest haste" (Haydock) to flee. Hebrew, "art consternated." We may easily prescribe for others, but when we are sick we know not what to do. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Where? Septuagint, "Rather is not thy fear foolishness as well as thy hope, and the innocence of thy path?" (Haydock) --- Is not all hypocrisy? (Menochius) (Calmet) --- Many of the assertions of Job's friends are true, but their inferences are false. (Menochius)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Destroyed? They never were eternally. But Abel and many other just persons, have been exposed to tribulation in this world, (Worthington) for their greater improvement. Yet Eliphaz falsely concludes from the sufferings of Job, that he must have been a criminal. (Calmet) --- If any one should now ho... [ Continue Reading ]
_Reap them. He insinuates that Job now reaps what he had sown, Galatians vi. 8._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Tiger. Hebrew Layish, means also an "old lion." Septuagint Greek: murmekoleon, "ant-lion," which some have deemed fabulous, improperly. (Bochart, vi. 5.) (\'c6lian, xvii. 42.) --- Eliphaz tacitly accuses Job of violence and pride. (Ven. Bede) (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Private. Heretics pretend such obscure visions, rather to get credit than to edify others. (St. Gregory, v. 18.) (Worthington) --- Many suppose that Eliphaz was guilty of feigning: but the greatest part think that he had truly seen a vision, but did not draw the proper conclusion from it. (Calmet)... [ Continue Reading ]
_The horror. Hebrew, "thoughts," while I considered the cause of thy distress. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Spirit: angel, or gentle breeze. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_And I. Protestants, " there was silence, and I heard a voice." Marginal note, "a still voice." Septuagint, "But I heard a breeze and a voice." (Haydock)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Maker. It is thought that these were the words of the angel. If God punish without cause, may not the sufferer esteem himself the better of the two? You must therefore be guilty. (Calmet) --- Job would never dispute; but God was infinitely more pure than man, who may nevertheless be free from griev... [ Continue Reading ]
_Angels, who fell, as the fathers explain it. (Estius) (Tirinus) --- Hebrew, "behold, he put no trust in his servants, and his angels he charged with folly," chap. xv. 15., and xxv. 5., and 2 Peter ii. 4. (Protestants) (Haydock)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Foundation. Children of Adam, whose bodies are taken from the dust. (Menochius)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Understandeth. Hebrew, "regardeth." Septuagint, "can help himself." (Haydock) --- Man is justly punished because he does not reflect on what he ought. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_And they. Hebrew, "doth not their dignity pass away with them? They die without wisdom." (Haydock) --- This is but too frequently the case of the great ones of this world, who never discern true from false riches. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
CHAPTER IV.... [ Continue Reading ]