_Days, when he will be punished. (Menochius) --- They are convinced it will be sometime: while the wicked flatter themselves with impunity. (Worthington) --- Job has already shewn that his complaints had not been excessive, and that they were extorted chiefly by the dread which he had of God. He now... [ Continue Reading ]
_Marks. This was a heinous offence, (Deuteronomy xix. 14.) which Numa punished with death. (Halyc. i.) (Calmet) --- And fed. Septuagint, "and those who fed them."_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Poor, by oppression, not allowing them to get their bread, or to walk on the same road. (Calmet) --- And have. Hebrew and Septuagint, "the meek....have hidden themselves together."_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Others. Hebrew, "Behold as," (Haydock) which may be explained of these oppressors, or rather of the poor, who are forced to flee before them to seek for food. (Calmet) --- The Vulgate and Septuagint seem more favourable to the former supposition. (Haydock)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Not, is omitted by the Protestants. (Haydock) --- Hebrew, "they reap in the field food for the cattle." (Calmet) --- His. Hebrew, "the wicked man's vineyard." (Haydock) --- They do not examine whether the person whom they plunder be just or not. (Calmet) --- Septuagint, "they have reaped before the... [ Continue Reading ]
_Cold. Hebrew is still ambiguous, as it may be understood either of the oppressor or of the poor. The cruelty here reprobated is contrary to the law, Exodus xxii. 26. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Stones, for their bed, though they be so wet. (Haydock)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Robbed. Hebrew and Septuagint, "snatched from the breast." --- Stript. Septuagint, "knocked down." Hebrew, "taken a pledge of, or seized the poor." (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Corn, which they had gleaned for their daily sustenance. Hebrew also, "the poor, perishing through hunger, carry the sheaf" of the rich._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Of them. Hebrew, "of corn, and thirst while pressing out their olives." (Calmet) --- Protestants, "they take away the sheaf from the hungry, (11) which make oil within their walls, and tread their wine-presses, and suffer thirst," (Haydock) not being allowed to taste any thing, though the law of Mo... [ Continue Reading ]
_Suffer. Hebrew, "and God suffers no disorder," according to you. (Calmet) --- Symmachus, "God inspireth not folly: but they have," &c., ver. 13. Septuagint, "But why does he not regard," (Haydock) or punish these things? (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Light of reason and humanity. (Calmet) --- Pineda understands that they have sought darkness, (ver. 14.) to do evil. But this expression would be too harsh. (Calmet) --- Heretics, acting against their own conscience, are stricken with blindness, so that they see not the truth. (St. Gregory xvi. 26.... [ Continue Reading ]
_Thief. Oppressing the poor, (Ven. Bede) and taking away their bread, Ecclesiasticus xxxiv. 25._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Face. Septuagint insinuate "with a mask." Protestants, "disguiseth his face."_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Themselves. The band of robbers had marked out their prey. (Haydock) --- Hebrew, "In the day time they lie concealed, and know not the light." (Calmet) --- Septuagint, or rather Theodotion, from whom ver. 15 to 17., is taken, "They have sealed themselves up during the day." If we should read Greek:... [ Continue Reading ]
CHAPTER XXIV. _ Death. They are as much afraid of the light as others are of profound darkness. (Calmet) --- They dread being detected. (Haydock)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_He is light, &c. That is, the adulterer, that he may not be perceived and discovered, steps as nimbly and as light as if her were walking upon the waters. Or the sense is: he is as light, that is, as swift and nimble as the running waters. --- By the way of the vineyards. That is, by the way where... [ Continue Reading ]
Let. Hebrew, "Drought and heat consume the snow waters; so doth the grave those which have sinned." (Protestants) (Challoner) (Haydock) --- The wicked die quickly, and without a lingering illness. (Piscator) --- What foundation, therefore, has the hell of cold as well as of fire? says Amama. St. Jer... [ Continue Reading ]
_Sweetness. These will inherit him; (Haydock) for here all his pleasures will terminate. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Fed the barren. That is, the harlot. Or else, he hath fed; that is, he hath fed upon the barren; that is, the poor and desolate. (Challoner) --- He has not had posterity, but pleasure, in view, when he married. (Rabbins) --- Septuagint agree with the Vulgate. (Haydock) --- But most explain the Hebr... [ Continue Reading ]
_Down. Hebrew, "taketh along with him his guards for his defence. He riseth and is not sure of his life," fearing lest his enemies may still overpower him. This is a description of the tyrant's continual anxiety. (Calmet) --- Protestants, "And no man is sure of life," may intimate that the wicked pu... [ Continue Reading ]
_God. Septuagint, "being sick, let him not expect to be healed, but he shall fall under sickness." Hebrew, "Though it be given him to be in safety, whereon he resteth, yet his eyes are upon their ways," (Protestants) or "he has given (Haydock) himself, or appointed them (guards) for his defence, and... [ Continue Reading ]
_And set. Septuagint and Protestants, "and make my speech nothing worth." (Haydock) --- This conclusion come frequently, chap. ix. 15., and xvii. 15. Job defies his friends to shew the fallacy of his arguments, or that the wicked do not enjoy prosperity, though they may be inwardly miserable. (Calme... [ Continue Reading ]