For he has said, It profits a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
With him, and strive to please him. Horrible blasphemy! of which Job was incapable: as if God were a cruel master, and threw us into despair. He had asserted that God punishes the wicked, and often treats his friends with the like severity, (chap. ix. 22., and xxx. 26.) in this world: which is very true. (Calmet)
Septuagint, "Say not that man is not visited. He is indeed visited by the Lord. "(Haydock)
Eliu wrests Job's words, in order that he may have something to say against him. (St. Gregory xxiv. 25.) (Worthington)
“For he has said, ‘A man will not please God even though he runs with him.’ ” But that he never said so, everyone acknowledges who reads the words of blessed Job. Is it not a wonder that he, who speaks for the sole purpose of proudly setting himself off, invents something to find fault within another person? How can he adhere to truth in his words of reproof, whom pride of mind within removes far away from the same truth? - "Morals on the Book of Job 24.43"
43. But that he never said so, every one acknowledges who reads the words of blessed Job. But yet what wonder, that he who speaks for the sole purpose of proudly setting himself off, invents something to find fault with in another person? For how can he adhere to “truth in his words of reproof, whom pride of mind within removes far away from the same truth?
