“"But alas! Since you magnify yourselves against me and insult me with reproach," he says, "know then that it is the Lord that has troubled me." What do these words mean? That it is necessary to have respect and fear? In my opinion, Job wants to suggest in this passage that if he was suffering so much, it was not becau…”
John Chrysostom, 5th c. — COMMENTARY ON JOB 19:3B-6A
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6Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net.
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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:
— Job 19:6 —
7Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.
8He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.