Holy Scripture

Job 1:20

A church father on this verse
“Job's words may be more elegantly understood of evil and sin in this way: Naked was I formed from the earth at the beginning, as if from a mother's womb. Naked to the earth shall I also depart—naked not of possessions, for that would be a trivial and common thing; rather, naked of evil and sin and of the unsightly sha…”
Clement of Alexandria, 3th c. — Nicetas Bishop of Heraclea

Source: Septuagint

Original

20So Job arose, and rent his garments, And shaved the hair of his head, And fell on the earth, and worshiped,

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In context

18While he is yet speaking, another messenger comes, saying to Job, While thy sons and thy daughters were eating and drinking with their elder brother,

19Suddenly a great wind came on from the desert, and caught the four corners of the house, And the house fell upon thy children, and they are dead; And I have escaped alone, and am come to tell thee.

— Job 1:20 —

21and said, I myself came forth naked from my mother’s womb, And naked shall I return thither: The Lord gave, the Lord has taken away: As it seemed good to the Lord, so has it come to pass; Blessed be the name of the Lord.

22In all these events that befell him Job sinned not at all before the Lord, And did not impute folly to God.

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