“Which were taken away before their time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood. Whereas the period of our life is assuredly foreordained for us in the foreknowledge of God, it is a very important question on what principle it is said now, that the wicked are withdrawn from the present world 'before their time.'…”
Gregory the Dialogist, 7th c. — Morals on the Book of Job, Book XVI
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16Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood:
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14Thick clouds are a covering to him, that he seeth not; and he walketh in the circuit of heaven.
15Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have trodden?
— Job 22:16 —
17Which said unto God, Depart from us: and what can the Almighty do for them?
18Yet he filled their houses with good things: but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.