Holy Scripture
Job 16:13
A church father on this verse
“Ver. 13. I, the same that was once rich, am crushed on a sudden. Herein, viz. that he declared himself to be 'crushed on a sudden,' he denoted the unguarded mind of weak persons: who, whilst they are not skilled to foresee the evils which are destined to come, find them more severe in proportion as they also undergo t…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
13They surrounded me with spears, Aiming at my reins: Without sparing me they poured out my gall upon the ground.
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11For the Lord has delivered me into the hands of unrighteous men, And thrown me upon the ungodly.
12When I was at peace he distracted me: He took me by the hair of the head, and plucked it out: He set me up as a mark.
— Job 16:13 —
14They overthrew me with fall upon fall: They ran upon me in their might.
15They sewed sackcloth upon my skin, And my strength has been spent on the ground.