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Translated from the Latin Vulgate
Diligently Compared with the Hebrew, Greek,and Other Editions in Divers Languages
THE OLD TESTAMENT
First Published by the English College at Douay
A.D. 1609 & 1610
and
THE NEW TESTAMENT
First Published by the English College at Rheims
A.D. 1582
With Annotations
The Whole Revised and Diligently Compared withthe Latin Vulgate by Bishop Richard ChallonerA.D. 1749-1752
This Book takes its name from the holy man of whom it treats: who,according to the more probable opinion, was of the race of Esau; and thesame as Jobab, king of Edom, mentioned Gen. 36.33. It is uncertain whowas the writer of it. Some attribute it to Job himself; others to Moses,or some one of the prophets. In the Hebrew it is written in verse, fromthe beginning of the third chapter to the forty-second chapter.
Job Chapter 1
1:1. There was a man in the land of Hus, whose name was Job, and thatman was simple and upright, and fearing God, and avoiding evil.
Hus… The land of Hus was a part of Edom; as appears from Lam. 4.21.
Ibid. Simple… That is, innocent, sincere, and without guile.
1:2. And there were born to him seven sons and three daughters.
1:3. And his possession was seven thousand sheep, and three thousandcamels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and afamily exceedingly great: and this man was great among all the people ofthe east.
1:4. And his sons went, and made a feast by houses, every one in hisday. And sending, they called their three sisters, to eat and drink withthem.
And made a feast by houses… That is, each made a feast in his ownhouse and had his day, inviting the others, and their sisters.
1:5. And when the days of their feasting were gone about, Job sent tothem, and sanctified them: and rising up early, offered holocausts forevery one of them. For he said: Lest perhaps my sons have sinned, andhave blessed God in their hearts. So did Job all days.
Blessed… For greater horror of the very thought of blasphemy, thescripture both here and ver. 11, and in the following chapter, ver. 5and 9, uses the word bless to signify its contrary.
1:6. Now on a certain day, when the sons of God came to stand before theLord, Satan also was present among them.
The sons of God… The angels.-Ibid. Satan also, etc.. This passagerepresents to us in a figure, accommodated to the ways andunderstandings of men, 1. The restless endeavours of Satan against theservants of God; 2. That he can do nothing without God's permission; 3.That God doth not permit him to tempt them above their strength: butassists them by his divine grace in such manner, that the vain effortsof the enemy only serve to illustrate their virtue and increase theirmerit.
1:7. And the Lord said to him: Whence comest thou? And he answered andsaid: I have gone round about the earth, and walked through it.
1:8. And the Lord said to him: Hast thou considered my servant, Job,