Holy Scripture
Job 18:4
A church father on this verse
“Bildad speaks these words because Job did not refrain from complaining by saying that he wanted to die. What sort of consolation is this? How could he have disheartened him in another way? He said, in fact, that the "stretches under heaven would be desolate," or did he mention his death as if it brought a great contri…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
4Anger has possessed thee: For what if thou shouldest die; would the earth under heaven be desolate? Or shall the mountains be overthrown from their foundations?
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2How long wilt thou continue? Forbear, that we also may speak.
3For wherefore have we been silent before thee like brutes?
— Job 18:4 —
5But the light of the ungodly shall be quenched, And their flame shall not go up.
6His light shall be darkness in his habitation, And his lamp shall be put out with him.