“Ver. 2. Hear I pray you my speech, and practise penitence. 40. For he that when he said Hear, added, I pray you, shews how humbly he speaks, whilst he entreats persons, swelling with pride against him, to bring back their thought to the teaching of saving truth. But whereas holy men, within the pale of the Universal C…”
Gregory the Dialogist, 7th c. — Morals on the Book of Job, Book XV
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2Hear diligently my speech, and let this be your consolations.
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In context
1But Job answered and said,
— Job 21:2 —
3Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on.
4As for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should not my spirit be troubled?