“Ver. 16. My face is swelled with weeping. For 'the face' of Holy Church are those, who being set in posts or governorships appear the foremost, that in their goodly appearance should be the honour of the faithful people, even if there were aught deformed in the body hidden from sight. Which same persons that are set o…”
Gregory the Dialogist, 7th c. — Morals on the Book of Job, Book XIII
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16My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;
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14He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant.
15I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust.
— Job 16:16 —
17Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure.
18O earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have no place.