“If He overturn all things, or shut them up together, then who shall gainsay Him? Or who can say to Him, Why doest Thou so? The Lord 'overturns heaven,' when by His terrible and secret ordering He pulls down the height of man's contemptations. He 'subverts hell,' when He allows the soul of any affrighted under its temp…”
Gregory the Dialogist, 7th c. — Morals on the Book of Job, Book X
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10If he cut off, and shut up, or gather together, then who can hinder him?
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8It is as high as heaven; what canst thou do? deeper than hell; what canst thou know?
9The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.
— Job 11:10 —
11For he knoweth vain men: he seeth wickedness also; will he not then consider it?
12For vain man would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass’s colt.