Original Douay–Rheims AnnotationsJob 5

Turn to some of the Saints.

Eliphaz provoking Job to produce some of his opinion, or to seek the help and patronage of some Saint in his cause, ^[1] plainly sheweth the common faith and practice of invocating Saints in that time. Else it had been a frivolous speech, which is not to be imputed to a sensible wise man as he was. For it appeareth by the drift of his reasoning, that he supposed some of God's special servants would maintain a good cause, but that Job's cause was such as neither God, nor holy Angel, nor good man would defend, and therefore boldly provoked him to this trial, presuming that he should find no such patron. Neither did he will Job in these words to call upon God only, for he could not err so grossly, as to call God some of the Saints: but must mean some other holy person. And it is clear by the Septuaginta Interpreters, that Eliphaz willed Job to invocate the Angels, saying: Invocate if any will answer thee, or if thou canst behold any of the holy Angels. ^[2] S. Gregory expoundeth it to the same sense, that Saints were to be invocated in a good cause, but that Eliphaz here despising and deriding holy Job, said to him: Thou canst not find Saints thy helpers in affliction, whom thou wouldest not have thy fellows in prosperity.

• 1 Invocation of Saints, escpecially Angels in Job's time.
• 2 li. 5. c. 30.