Job 14:1
_Man. He exposes to God the common miseries of mankind. (Calmet) --- They cannot avoid many miseries in their short life, yet may be brought to heaven. (Worthington)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Man. He exposes to God the common miseries of mankind. (Calmet) --- They cannot avoid many miseries in their short life, yet may be brought to heaven. (Worthington)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Shadow. Pulvis et umbra sumus. (Horace iv. Ode 7.) "Come then, ye men, whom nature condemns to spend your days in darkness, ye who resemble the leaves, are of little strength, formed of mud, shadow-like,...of a day's duration, miserable mortals, men like dreams, attend to the immortals." (Aristopha... [ Continue Reading ]
_With thee. He seems beneath God's attention: (Arist.[Aristotle?] Met. viii. 9.; Cicero, Nat. ii.) but as the knowledge and other attributes of the Deity are infinite, he must necessarily attend to the whole creation. The moral actions of men being also infinite in their object, tending to God, or c... [ Continue Reading ]
Seed, is not expressed in Hebrew, " unclean. " It may refer to Adam. There is no contagion in the seed to infect the soul, as Tertullian supposed; it in only unclean in the cause, as every person who is born according to the common course of nature, becomes a child of Adam, and partakes in his origi... [ Continue Reading ]
_Hireling, who rejoices at being permitted to rest a little. So, before death, suffer me to have some relaxation, chap. vii. 1._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Dust. After being even exposed to the air, for a long time, some branches will take root, like the rose of Jericho, the willow, &c._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Scent, or light touch, Daniel iii. 94. (Menochius)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Is he? Will he naturally come to life again?_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Sea. There would be no supply of rain for the fountains. (Ecclesiastes i. 7.) All would continue dry: so when the blood is once gone, life is at an end. See 2 Kings xiv. 14. (Calmet) --- The water cannot go back. (Menochius)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Till. At that time, the general resurrection will take place. (Vatable) (Scultet.) --- But people will never revive, according to the course of nature. In St. Matthew v. 18., and Psalm lxxi. 7., till is used in this sense. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_That thou mayst protect me in hell. That is, in the state of the dead; an din the place where souls are kept waiting for their Redeemer; (Challoner) and in the grave, where the body awaits the resurrection. (Haydock) --- These words are repeated in the office of the dead, in the name of the souls i... [ Continue Reading ]
_Dead. Shall one in a condition nearly as bad, like myself, be restored to health? Yes, I entertain this hope. (Calmet) --- Thinkest thou, is not in Hebrew or Septuagint. The latter speaks (Haydock) clearly of the resurrection. (Calmet) --- "For if a man die, shall he revive, having completed the da... [ Continue Reading ]
_But. Hebrew, "Mark out, (Calmet) or dost thou not observe my sin?" This fills me with terror, (Haydock) unless thou shew mercy._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Cured. Hebrew, "sewed up." This method and sealing was in use to keep things of value, before locks were invented. (Calmet) --- Septuagint, "thou hast noted if I had transgressed unwillingly, Greek: akon. " Yet God will not make us accountable for what we cannot help._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Man. Hebrew and Septuagint, "the hope of man." (Haydock) --- He must not expect to be more privileged than all other things, which time consumes. (Calmet) --- Job again deplores human misery. (Menochius)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Strengthened. Septuagint, "driven away." (Pagnin, &c.) --- "Thou wilt treat him harshly." (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Or dishonour. He cannot naturally be informed. (Menochius) --- God may, however, reveal to souls departed, what may increase their accidental happiness or misery. (Haydock) --- Hence the Church prays to the saints. Job is speaking chiefly of the body in the grave, and of what appear exteriorly. Dur... [ Continue Reading ]
_Over. Hebrew, "within him." (Haydock) --- During life man is full of cares, and presently he is consigned to the dreary tomb, ver. 19. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
CHAPTER XIV.... [ Continue Reading ]