“Ver. 33. He was sweet to the pebbles of Cocytus. 71. 'Cocytus' in the Greek tongue is the term for 'lamentation,' which is used to be taken for the lamentation of women, or any persons going weakly. Now the wise of this world being shut out from the light of truth, endeavoured by making search to hold a kind of shadow…”
Gregory the Dialogist, 7th c. — Morals on the Book of Job, Book XV
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33The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, and every man shall draw after him, as there are innumerable before him.
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In context
31Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall repay him what he hath done?
32Yet shall he be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the tomb.
— Job 21:33 —
34How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there remaineth falsehood?