“How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words? HISTORICAL INTERPRETATION The sayings of the holy man, as we have already often said, are to be understood sometimes in his own person, sometimes in the voice of the Head, and sometimes in a figure of the Church Universal. Now the soul of the righteous i…”
Gregory the Dialogist, 7th c. — Morals on the Book of Job, Book XIV
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2How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?
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1Then Job answered and said,
— Job 19:2 —
3These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me.
4And be it indeed that I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself.