Holy Scripture
Job 16:14
A church father on this verse
“Ver. 14. He hath broken me with breach upon breach. [ALLEGORICAL INTERPRETATION] In her weak members Holy Church is 'broken with breach upon breach,' when sin is added to sin, that transgression should be brought to a more dreadful pitch. Thus for him, whom avarice forces to robbery and robbery leads into deceit, so t…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
14They overthrew me with fall upon fall: They ran upon me in their might.
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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.
13They surrounded me with spears, Aiming at my reins: Without sparing me they poured out my gall upon the ground.
— Job 16:14 —
15They sewed sackcloth upon my skin, And my strength has been spent on the ground.
16My belly has been parched with wailing, And darkness is on my eyelids.