Job 13:1
_All, without your information. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_All, without your information. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Reason. Hebrew, "to dispute with, or before God," concerning the matter which we have in hand. He appeals to God, as to the judge of all._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Having. Hebrew, "But ye are sewers of lies." (Calmet) --- Septuagint, "unskilful surgeons, (who, instead of sewing up a wound, increase it) and all of you doctors of evil;" vain empirics. --- Maintainers. Protestants, "ye are all physicians of no value." (Haydock)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Men. Proverbs xvii. 28. If you had been silent, you might still have had the reputation of wisdom. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Judgment. Hebrew, "pleading" before our common judge. (Haydock)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Accept. Hebrew, "will you not be seized with fear?" Olympiodorus translates, "will you stad in his presence, and dispute with him?" (Calmet) --- Septuagint, "Are you sent to be judges?" &c., or, do you suppose that you hope to gain his favour? (Calmet) --- He knows the state of my soul best; then I... [ Continue Reading ]
_Or. Hebrew, "Is it good that he should examine you, would you escape?" (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_His. Hebrew, "persons." Because you see me afflicted, you infer that I am guilty; and think this mode of judging most honourable to God, whom you wish thus to please. (Haydock) --- But he stands not in need of lies; (Calmet) and something farther is still to be proved. (Haydock) --- You judge rashl... [ Continue Reading ]
_Necks. Septuagint, "body." Hebrew also, (Haydock) "heights," (Calmet) or "fortifications." (Grotius)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Whatsoever. Hebrew, "come what will. " Septuagint, "that my anger may cease." (Haydock)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Why you seem to ask do I thus eagerly desire to die, (Haydock) as if I wear tearing my own flesh, and exposing my soul to danger, (Worthington) like a madman? (Tirinus) --- Is it not better for me to address myself to God, that he would hasten my departure, than thus to tear my flesh with my teeth?... [ Continue Reading ]
_In him. Hebrew lu is read, though lo, "not," is written in the Hebrew text. (Haydock) --- Protestants, &c., follow the sense of the Vulgate, and Junius comes to the same, as he reads lo with an interrogation: "Should I not hope in him?" Luther and the Belgic version go astray: "Behold he shall kill... [ Continue Reading ]
_Hypocrite. If I were such, I should not dare to appeal so boldly to his tribunal. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Truths. Literally, "riddles" to you. Hebrew achavathi, (Haydock) means "instructions," &c. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Just. He was in extreme anguish, yet still trusted in God. (Worthington)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Peace. It will be some consolation to explain my reasons. If I am fairly overcome, I shall die with more content. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Only. He makes the same petition to God as [in] chap. ix. 34., and xxxiii. 7. (Haydock)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Offences, which might be hidden to Job himself. (Worthington) --- He speaks to God with the freedom which he had requested, desiring to know if he were really guilty, (Calmet) that he might give glory to him, (Haydock) by an humble confession._... [ Continue Reading ]
CHAPTER XIII.... [ Continue Reading ]
_Bitter. The judge wrote down the sentence; which he read, or gave to his officer. (Calmet) --- Youth, for which I thought I had satisfied. (Haydock)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Stocks, in which the person's legs were sometimes stretched to the sixth hole; (Calmet) at other times, the neck was confined. (Menochius) --- Some translate the Hebrew, "in the mud," which agrees with the other part of the verse. --- Steps. Hebrew and Septuagint, "roots," or ankles, which retain t... [ Continue Reading ]
_Rottenness. Septuagint, "an old vessel," or skin, to contain wine, &c. (Calmet) --- My condition might excite pity. (Menochius)_... [ Continue Reading ]