Holy Scripture

Job 24:11

A church father on this verse
“"They have unjustly laid ambush in narrow places." They have laid ambush in hidden places; in fact, in larger places and roads they wait in ambush for those who have no chance to escape. "And they," that is, all the impious persons, "have not known the righteous way." "They have been cast forth from their cities and t…”
Olympiodorus of Alexandria, 6th c. — COMMENTARY ON JOB 24:9-12

Source: Septuagint

Original

11They have unrighteously laid wait in narrow places, And have not known the righteous way.

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9They have snatched the fatherless from the breast, And have afflicted the outcast.

10And they have wrongfully caused others to sleep without clothing, And taken away the morsel of the hungry.

— Job 24:11 —

12Who have cast forth the poor from the city and their own houses, And the soul of the children has groaned aloud.

13Why then has he not visited these? Forasmuch as they were upon the earth, and took no notice, And they knew not the way of righteousness, Neither have they walked in their appointed paths?

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