Job 1:22
In all these things Job sinned not by his lips, nor spoke he any foolish thing against God.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- In omnibus his non peccavit Job labiis suis, neque stultum quid contra Deum locutus est.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἐν τούτοις πᾶσιν τοῖς συμβεβηκόσιν αὐτῷ οὐδὲν ἥμαρτεν Ἰὼβ ἐναντίον τοῦ κυρίου, καὶ οὐκ ἔδωκεν ἀφροσύνην τῷ θεῷ.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- בְּכָל זֹ֖את לֹא חָטָ֣א אִיּ֑וֹב וְלֹא נָתַ֥ן תִּפְלָ֖ה לֵאלֹהִֽים
Haydock's commentary
By his lips, is not in Hebrew but occurs [in] chap. ii. 10.
God. Much less did he blaspheme, as satan had said, ver. 11. He did not consider all as the effect of chance, or like a mere philosopher. His thoughts were regulated by religion and the fear of God. (Calmet)
The virtue of Job was so much the more wonderful, as he lived among the wicked. (St. Gregory) He bore patiently with the loss of all things: and English Catholics have often imitated him. (Worthington)
He might well record his own good actions, the gifts of God, being moved by divine inspiration, like Moses, &c. (St. Gregory)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.
The Fathers on this verse
St Cyprian Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews, Testimony VI
In Solomon: “The furnace proveth the vessels of the potter, and the trial of tribulation righteous men.” Also in the fiftieth Psalm: “The sacrifice to God is a contrite spirit; a contrite and humbled heart God will not despise.” Also in the thirty-third Psalm: “God is nearest to them that are contrite in heart, and He will save the lowly in spirit.” Also in the same place: “Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but out of them all the Lord will deliver them.” Of this same matter in Job: “Naked came I out of my mother’s womb, naked also shall I go under the earth: the Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away: as it hath pleased the Lord, so it is done; blessed be the name of the Lord. …
St Augustine A Treatise on the Merits and Forgiveness of Sins, and on the Baptism of Infants, Job Foresaw that Christ Would Come to Suffer; The Way of Humility in Those that are Perfect
Now it is remarkable that the Lord Himself, after bestowing on Job the testimony which is expressed in Scripture, that is, by the Spirit of God, “In all the things which happened to him he sinned not with his lips before the Lord,” did yet afterwards speak to him with a rebuke, as Job himself tells us: “Why do I yet plead, being admonished, and hearing the rebukes of the Lord?” Now no man is justly rebuked unless there be in him something which deserves rebuke. …