Holy Scripture

Job 21:5

A church father on this verse
“Ver. 5. Mark me, and be astonished. 43. i.e. Consider what I have done, and be astonished at the things that I undergo under this infliction of the rod. And he yet further rightly introduces the words; And lay your finger upon your mouth. As if he had said in plain speech; 'Knowing the good things that I have done and…”
Gregory the Dialogist, 7th c. — Morals on the Book of Job, Book XV

Source: Septuagint

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5Look upon me, and wonder, Laying your hand upon your cheek.

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In context

3Raise me, and I will speak; Then ye shall not laugh me to scorn.

4What! is my reproof of man? And why should I not be angry?

— Job 21:5 —

6For even when I remember, I am alarmed, And pains seize my flesh.

7Wherefore do the ungodly live, And grow old even in wealth?

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