Holy Scripture
Job 24:19
A church father on this verse
“Let him pass to excessive heat from the snow waters. And his sin even to hell. Iniquity is on this account likened to cold, because the mind that sins it binds up with insensibility. Hence it is written; As a fountain has made her waters cold, so she has made her wickedness cold. Contrariwise charity is 'heat,' in thi…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
19Let them be withered upon the earth; For they have plundered the sheaves of the fatherless.
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17For the morning is to them all as the shadow of death, For each will be conscious of the terror of the shadow of death.
18He is swift on the face of the water: Let his portion be cursed on the earth; And let their plants be laid bare.
— Job 24:19 —
20Then is his sin brought to remembrance, And he vanishes like a vapor of dew: But let what he has done be recompensed to him, And let every unrighteous one be crushed like rotten wood.
21For he has not treated the barren woman well, And has had no pity on a feeble woman.