His sons come to honor, and he knows it not; and they are brought low, but he perceives it not of them.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
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. During life man cannot foresee the state of his children; nor in the other world, would their condition render him happy or otherwise. (Calmet) (Mercer)
Septuagint, "If his sons be many.or.few, he knows not. "(Haydock)
He is not affected in the same manner as he would be, if living. (Worthington)
26. For as they, who are still living, know nothing of the souls of the dead, in what place they are held; so the dead, concerning the life of those living after them in the flesh, know not at all how it is ordered; in that both the life of the spirit is far from the life of the flesh, and as the corporeal and incorporeal are things different in kind, so are they parted in knowledge. Which however is not to be imagined concerning holy souls, in that they which behold the brightness of Almighty God within, we cannot for a moment suppose that there is any thing without that they know not [b]. But because carnal persons bestow their chief affection on their children, blessed Job declares that they are hereafter ignorant of that, which they loved here with all their heart, so that ‘whether their sons be in honour or dishonour they know not,’ whereas their care for these was always preying upon their minds.
Which however if it is to be understood in a spiritual sense, with no unfitness ...
