Holy Scripture

Job 10:3

A church father on this verse
“Is it good unto Thee that Thou shouldest calumniate and oppress the poor, and the work of Thine hands, and help the counsel of the wicked? This same is so said by way of interrogation, that it is denied. As though it were in plain terms; 'Thou That art supremely good, I know dost not hold it good to oppress the poor m…”
Gregory the Dialogist, 7th c. — Morals on the Book of Job, Book IX

Source: Septuagint

Original

3Is it good before thee if I be unrighteous? For thou hast disowned the work of thy hands, And attended to the counsel of the ungodly.

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In context

1Weary in my soul, I will pour my words with groans upon him: I will speak being straitened in the bitterness of my soul.

2And I will say to the Lord, Do not teach me to be impious; And wherefore hast thou thus judged me?

— Job 10:3 —

4Or dost thou see as a mortal sees? Or wilt thou look as a man sees?

5Or is thy life human, Or thy years the years of a man,

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