“Zophar introduces himself as teacher and exhorts Job with the words, "Even if you are very clean, so clean that you stretch your hands continuously in prayer and ask for God's gifts, be still prepared to reject the evil that remains within you. Iniquity shall not reside in you." That means, "Even if you somehow start…”
Didymus the Blind, 4th c. — COMMENTARY ON JOB 11:13-14
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13If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hands toward him;
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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.
— Job 11:13 —
14If iniquity be in thine hand, put it far away, and let not wickedness dwell in thy tabernacles.
15For then shalt thou lift up thy face without spot; yea, thou shalt be stedfast, and shalt not fear: