Holy Scripture

Job 21:15

A church father on this verse
“Ver. 15. Who is the Almighty, that we should serve Him? 52. For the mind of man being miserably discharged without, is so dissipated in things corporeal, as neither to return to itself within, nor to be able to think of Him, Who is invisible. Thus carnal men setting at nought spiritual commands, because they do not se…”
Gregory the Dialogist, 7th c. — Morals on the Book of Job, Book XV

Source: Septuagint

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15What is the Mighty One, that we should serve him? And what profit is there that we should approach him?

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13And they spend their days in wealth, And fall asleep in the rest of the grave.

14Yet such a man says to the Lord, Depart from me; I desire not to know thy ways.

— Job 21:15 —

16For their good things were in their hands, But he regards not the works of the ungodly.

17Nevertheless, the lamp of the ungodly also shall be put out, And destruction shall come upon them, And pangs of vengeance shall seize them.

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