“Why do we build palaces? Why do we care for the drapery of beds and for the different garments? Why do we add estate to estate, strangle the poor and strike the needy? Why do we want to increase those riches that will not come together with us? And why do we not bend our ears to the truthful oracles? Why do we not bel…”
Hesychius of Jerusalem, 5th c. — HOMILIES ON JOB 20.17.16
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16They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.
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14I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister.
15And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?