Thick clouds are a covering to him, that he sees not; and he walks in the circle of heaven.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Doth. Hebrew, "seeth not. "Septuagint, "is not seen. "
Poles, on which the whole machine seems to turn. (Calmet)
"Hipparchus intimated that there would be a time when the hinges, or poles of heaven, would be moved out of their places. "(Colum. i. 1.) Hebrew and Septuagint, (according to Origen's edition, ver. 13 to 16) "he walketh about in the circuit of heaven. "(Haydock) Immortali ævo summa cum pace fruatur Semota a nostris rebus, sejunctaque longe. (Lucretius) This was the error of the Egyptians, (Aristotle, Mun. 84.) which Eliphaz unjustly lays to the charge of Job, as heretics often impute condemned tenets to Catholics. (Worthington)
Eliphaz pronounces a serious accusation of impiety and madness against Job. “In fact,” he says, “you committed iniquities, as if [God] did not realize they were [committed] in the land of the Lord, but as if he judged in darkness. That is, as if, in judging, he did not see what happened in his land. You said, in fact, that since he is invisible and separates himself with clouds from what happens among us, and only goes around the circle of heaven, he does not deem it worthy to take care of earthly things.” This is what the pagan philosophers thought, when they said that God does not take care of what is under the moon. - "Commentary on Job 22.13–14"
