Holy Scripture
Job 16:7
A church father on this verse
“Ver. 7. But what am I to do? Though I speak, my grief is not assuaged; and though I forbear, it will not depart from me. [ALLEGORICAL INTERPRETATION] How this accords with the person of blessed Job, there is no one that is ignorant; but if it be drawn into a type of Holy Church, she both when she speaks 'has not her g…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
7But now he has made me weary, and a worn-out fool; And thou hast laid hold of me.
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5And would there were strength in my mouth, And I would not spare the movement of my lips.
6For if I should speak, I shall not feel the pain of my wound: And if I should be silent, how shall I be wounded the less?
— Job 16:7 —
8My falsehood has become a testimony, And has risen up against me: It has confronted me to my face.
9In his anger he has cast me down; He has gnashed his teeth upon me: The weapons of his robbers have fallen upon me.