Notes, Critical and Explanatory, on the Holy Scriptures

P. "Overthrown." L. " Bent me down." He complains of the severity of the Divine visitation, not that God acted unjustly, but that an occasion appeared to be given by the fault of his afflicted servant. " How harshly," exclaims St. Gregory, "does this expression sound on the lips of the just man when scourged, which, nevertheless, was not dictated by pride, but wrung from him by suffering!"

Covered his path with darkness, so that he cannot see to advance.

Writing was at that period done with an iron, or steel, sometimes on leaden tablets, sometimes on stone : the Incisions made on stone were filled with lead, to render the characters more distinct and last- ing. See also Jer. 17 : 1.

He bids them not provoke God by rash judgments, since He may abandon them to the sword of their enemies.

Lit. " And in the end He shall rise upon the dust" This term is allowed by R. to refer to the state of the dead, whose bodies are in dissolution. Ho thinks that, taken in connection with the verb and preposition, it means that God will at last do him Justice, when his body shall lie in ashes, over which remains of His servants He watches. There is little appearance, however, that Job looked forward to the restoration of his prosperity.