“Which said unto God, Depart from us. That this too blessed Job had said, who can doubt? But what we have unfolded in his words, on account of wearying the reader, we forbear to repeat. It goes on; And as though the Almighty could do nothing, so reckoned concerning Him. In this part likewise the wording, and not the st…”
Gregory the Dialogist, 7th c. — Morals on the Book of Job, Book XVI
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17Which said unto God, Depart from us: and what can the Almighty do for them?
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15Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have trodden?
16Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood:
— Job 22:17 —
18Yet he filled their houses with good things: but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
19The righteous see it, and are glad: and the innocent laugh them to scorn.