“To enjoy the beauty of God's creation is desirable. It is a good thing to become a human being and to receive the image of God. It is not good to linger in an impure life. Many people are fascinated by an impure life, but not the righteous. Therefore, the departure from this world is no reason for sadness, for death i…”
Hesychius of Jerusalem, 5th c. — HOMILIES ON JOB 6.3.13-16
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13For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,
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11Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?
12Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?
— Job 3:13 —
14With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;
15Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver: