“To whom hast thou given counsel? perchance to him that hath not wisdom? To 'give counsel to one that is foolish' is an office of charity, to give it to one that is wise, of ostentation; but to give it to Wisdom Itself, of wrongmindedness; and because those who we have said bear the likeness of heretics, by their mode…”
Gregory the Dialogist, 7th c. — Morals on the Book of Job, Book XVII
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3How hast thou counselled him that hath no wisdom? and how hast thou plentifully declared the thing as it is?
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1But Job answered and said,
2How hast thou helped him that is without power? how savest thou the arm that hath no strength?
— Job 26:3 —
4To whom hast thou uttered words? and whose spirit came from thee?
5Dead things are formed from under the waters, and the inhabitants thereof.