Holy Scripture

Job 15:12

A church father on this verse
“Ver. 12. Why does thine heart lift thee up, and hast thou thine eyes astonished as thinking of great things? Often the mind of the righteous is so suspended in contemplating things on high, that outwardly their face seems to have been struck with stupefaction. But because Heretics are not taught to enforce the power o…”
Gregory the Dialogist, 7th c. — Morals on the Book of Job, Book XII

Source: Septuagint

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12What has thy heart dared? Or what have thine eyes aimed at,

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10Truly among us are both the old and very aged man, More advanced in days than thy father.

11Thou hast been scourged for but few of thy sins: Thou hast spoken haughtily and extravagantly.

— Job 15:12 —

13That thou hast vented thy rage before the Lord, And delivered such words from thy mouth?

14For who, being a mortal, is such that he shall be blameless? Or, who that is born of a woman, that he should be just?

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