| Job 34:30
| Who maketh a man that is a hypocrite to reign for the sins of the people?
| People. A hypocrite denotes one infected with all sorts of crimes. (St. Irenaeus 5:24.) Such a king is sometimes given to punish a wicked people, Osee 13:11., and Isaias 3:4. This sense is beautiful, and followed by the Chaldean, Septuagint, etc. We may explain the Hebrew in like manner, by neglecting the Masoretic points. (Calmet) --- Protestants, "That the hypocrite reign not, lest the people be ensnared." (Haydock) --- Hebrew, "He overturns the throne of hypocrites, on account of the scandal of the people," or "he delivers the people from servitude." The sense of the Vulgate seems preferable. (Calmet) --- Eliu insinuates that Job had been a hypocrite and an oppressor; but God exculpates him. (Worthington)
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