“"Only know that the Lord has dealt with me thus.… You speak against me; you do not feel for me but bear hard upon me.… May the dignity of him who punishes me make you change your mind," he says. We do not have to trample underfoot the people who are punished by God, but we must shed tears and grieve over their fate. A…”
John Chrysostom, 5th c. — COMMENTARY ON JOB 19:3A
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3These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me.
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1Then Job answered and said,
2How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?
— Job 19:3 —
4And be it indeed that I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself.
5If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach: