Holy Scripture

Job 19:6

A church father on this verse
“"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

Source: Septuagint

Original

6Know then that it is the Lord that has troubled me, And has raised his bulwark against me.

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4Yea verily, I have erred in truth (But the error abides with myself) a In having spoken words which it was not right to speak; And my words err, and are unseasonable.

5But alas! for ye magnify yourselves against me, And insult me with reproach.

— Job 19:6 —

7Behold, I laugh at reproach; I will not speak: Or I will cry out, but there is nowhere judgment.

8I am fenced round about, and can by no means escape: He has set darkness before my face.

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