_Warfare. Hebrew, "is it not determined" (Haydock) for some short space, as the Levites had to serve from 30 to 50 years of age; (Numbers iv. 3., and viii. 25.) and the days of a hireling are also defined and short, Isaias xvi. 14. (Amama) --- No soldier or hireling was ever treated so severely as J... [ Continue Reading ]
_And have. Hebrew, "they have appointed for me." (Calmet) --- God treats me with more severity, as even the night is not a time of rest for me, and my months of service are without any present recompense. (Haydock)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_And again. Hebrew, "and the night be completed, I toss to and fro," (Haydock) or "I am disturbed with dreams, (Calmet) till day break." Vulgate insinuates that night and day are equally restless to a man in extreme pain. (Haydock) --- As I find no comfort, why may I not desire to die? (Menochius) -... [ Continue Reading ]
_Web. Hebrew, "the weaver's shuttle," chap. xvi. 23., and Isaias xxxviii. 12. (Haydock) --- The pagans have used the same comparison. But they make the three daughters of Necessity guide the thread of life. (Plato, Rep. xii.; Natal. iii. 6.) --- Septuagint, "my life is swifter than speech." Tetrapla... [ Continue Reading ]
_Wind. What is life compared with eternity, or even with past ages? (Calmet) --- "What is any one? Yea, what is no one? Men are the dream of a shadow," says Pindar; (Pyth. viii. Greek: Skias onar onthropoi) "like the baseless fabric of a vision." (Shakespeare)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Eyes, in anger, (Calmet) or thy mercy will come too late when I shall be no more._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Hell, or the grave. (Menochius) --- He was convinced of the resurrection. But he meant that, according to the natural course, we can have no means of returning to this world after we are dead._... [ Continue Reading ]
_More. This may be explained both of the soul and of the body, Psalm cii. 16. The former resides in the body for a short time, and then seems to take no farther notice of it (Calmet) till the resurrection._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Mouth. I will vent my bitter complaints before I die. (Haydock)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Sea. Ungovernable and malicious. Some of the ancients looked upon the sea as a huge animal, whose breathing caused the tides. (Strabo i.; Solin xxxii.) --- They represented its fury as proverbial. "Fire, the sea, and woman are three evils;" and they call the most savage people sons of Neptune. (Age... [ Continue Reading ]
_Hanging. Protestants, "strangling and death, rather than my life," or Marginal note, "bones." (Haydock) --- Any species of Death would be preferable to this misery. (Calmet) --- Who would not entertain the same sentiments, if the fear of worse in the other world did not withhold him? But Job had re... [ Continue Reading ]
_Hope of surviving this misery. (Haydock)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Magnify him, or put his to such severe trials. He is not worthy of thy attention. (Calmet) --- Hebrews ii. 6. (Haydock)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Suddenly. During his whole life, he is exposed to dangers; (Calmet) of if, at first, he taste some comfort, that is presently over. The greatest saints have experienced this treatment. (Haydock)_... [ Continue Reading ]
Sinned. I acknowledge my frailty. (Menochius) --- How may I obtain redress? (Calmet) --- Job's friends maintained that he was guilty. But he does not acquiesce in their conclusion, that these sufferings were precisely in punishment of some crime, though he acknowledges that he is not without his fau... [ Continue Reading ]
_Be. He lovingly expostulates with God, and begs that he would hasten his deliverance, lest it should be too late. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
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