Holy Scripture

Job 17:11

A church father on this verse
“Ver. 11. My days are past away, my thoughts are scattered, racking my heart. [ALLEGORICAL / MORAL INTERPRETATION] The Holy Church of the Elect sees that the spaces of her life pass in periods of day and night, in that it is hers in adversity to have 'a night,' and in prosperity, 'a day.' For there riseth as it were li…”
Gregory the Dialogist, 7th c. — Morals on the Book of Job, Book XIII

Source: Septuagint

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11My days have passed in groaning, And my heartstrings are broken.

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9But let the faithful hold on his own way, And let him that is pure of hands take courage.

10Howbeit, do ye all strengthen yourselves and come now, For I do not find truth in you.

— Job 17:11 —

12I have turned the night into day: The light is short because of darkness.

13For if I remain, Hades is my habitation: And my bed has been made in darkness.

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