Holy Scripture
Job 11:5
A church father on this verse
“But oh that God would speak with thee, and open His lips unto thee! For man by himself speaks to himself when in all that he thinks he is not withdrawn by the Spirit of the Divine Being from the sense of carnal wisdom; when the flesh puts forth a sense, and inviting the mind as it were to the understanding of it, send…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
5But oh that the Lord would speak to thee, And open his lips with thee!
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In context
3Be not a speaker of many words; For is there none to answer thee?
4For say not, I am pure in my works, And blameless before him.
— Job 11:5 —
6Then shall he declare to thee the power of wisdom; For it shall be double of that which is with thee: And then shalt thou know, that a just recompense of thy sins has come to thee from the Lord.
7Wilt thou find out the traces of the Lord? Or hast thou come to the end of that which the Almighty has made?