“"All the life of the ungodly," he says, "is spent in anguish," and when they experience peace, their conscience will know this anguish. "The years granted to the oppressors," who are unjust, "are numbered," he says, because the tyrants are ephemeral.”
John Chrysostom, 5th c. — COMMENTARY ON JOB 15:17-23B
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20The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor.
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18Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it:
19Unto whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed among them.
— Job 15:20 —
21A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.
22He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword.