“Ver. 20. My friends are full of words; but mine eye poureth out tears unto God. For what is denoted by the eye, but the intent of the heart? as it is written, if thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. For when any thing is done with a good intention, the enacting of that intention contracts no soi…”
Gregory the Dialogist, 7th c. — Morals on the Book of Job, Book XIII
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20My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God.
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18O earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have no place.
19Also now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my record is on high.
— Job 16:20 —
21O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour!
22When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return.