Holy Scripture
Job 16:16
A church father on this verse
“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…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
16My belly has been parched with wailing, And darkness is on my eyelids.
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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.
— Job 16:16 —
17Yet there was no injustice in my hands, And my prayer is pure.
18Earth, cover not over the blood of my flesh, And let my cry have no place.