“Is not their erecting cut down, and the remnant of them the fire hath consumed? For here the wicked are erected, in that they are lifted up in bad deeds. For they both do wickedly, and yet for their wicked deeds they are not stricken. They sin and thrive, they add to their sins, and multiply earthly good. But 'their e…”
Gregory the Dialogist, 7th c. — Morals on the Book of Job, Book XVI
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20Whereas our substance is not cut down, but the remnant of them the fire consumeth.
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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.
— Job 22:20 —
21Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come unto thee.
22Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in thine heart.