George Leo Haydock

Entreated. Protestants add, “for the children’s sake of mine own body.” Septuagint, “I invited with flattering speeches the sons of my concubines. ( 18 ) But they cast me from them for ever. When I arise, they speak against me.” (Haydock) — Interpreters generally suppose that Job speaks of the children by his inferior wives: though he might have some at home by the first wife, who were not old enough to be invited to the feast, with those who were destroyed. (Calmet)