Holy Scripture

Job 27:13

A church father on this verse
“Consider that since God is the Creator and Governor of all things, all receive something from him like an inheritance from a father. Evil men receive from God the temporal goods of this world as their share and their inheritance, and Wisdom speaks in their name saying, "This is our portion and our lot." (17:16) Invers…”
Thomas Aquinas, 13th c. — Commentary on Job

Source: Septuagint

Original

13This is the portion of an ungodly man from the Lord, And the possession of oppressors shall come upon them from the Almighty.

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11Yet now I will tell you what is in the hand of the Lord: I will not lie concerning the things which are with the Almighty.

12Behold, ye all know that ye are adding vanity to vanity.

— Job 27:13 —

14And if their children be many, they shall be for slaughter: And if they grow up, they shall beg.

15And they that survive of him shall utterly perish, And no one shall pity their widows.

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