Holy Scripture
Job 15:18
A church father on this verse
“Ver. 18. Wise men confess, and do not hide their fathers. And at once they leap out in praise of them, and boast that they had been as it were the only rulers of the Church. Hence it is yet further added, Unto whom alone the earth was given, and the stranger passed not among them. They think that 'the earth was given…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
18Things wise men say, and their fathers have not hidden.
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In context
16Alas then, abominable and unclean is man, Drinking unrighteousness as a draft.
17But I will tell thee, hearken to me; I will tell thee now what I have seen;
— Job 15:18 —
19To them alone the earth was given, And no stranger came upon them.
20All the life of the ungodly is spent in care, And the years granted to the oppressor are numbered.