“Ver. 4. Thou hast removed their heart far from discipline. For if they had been acquainted with the keeping of discipline, nor ever despised the precepts of our Redeemer, the mere mortal condition of their flesh by itself would have excited them to the love of the life immortal; for this very thing, even our being sub…”
Gregory the Dialogist, 7th c. — Morals on the Book of Job, Book XIII
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4For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them.
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In context
2Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation?
3Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who is he that will strike hands with me?
— Job 17:4 —
5He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.
6He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.