Holy Scripture
Job 13:14
A church father on this verse
“As those, Job says, who devour themselves have a consolation, as those who bite their flesh feel a certain relief in their sufferings, so it is the same with me, when I express myself in these terms, "And I may put my life in my hands." Consider, above all, this sentence, "I may put my life in my hand." This means, I…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
14While I may take my flesh in my teeth, And put my life in my hand.
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12And your glorying shall prove in the end to you like ashes, And your body like a body of clay.
13Be silent, that I may speak, and cease from mine anger,
— Job 13:14 —
15Though the Mighty One should lay hand upon me, forasmuch as he has begun, Verily I will speak, and plead before him.
16And this shall turn to me for salvation; For fraud shall have no entrance before him.