Holy Scripture

Job 3:15

A church father on this verse
“It seems to me that Job attempts to humble these noble characters and to persuade them not to attach a great importance to human affairs, because he has not introduced the kings into this passage without purpose or at random. Job speaks of "those who gloried in their swords." Notice again how amid his afflictions Job…”
John Chrysostom, 5th c. — COMMENTARY ON JOB 3:20-23

Source: Septuagint

Original

15Or with rulers, whose gold was abundant, Who filled their houses with silver:

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13Now I should have lain down and been quiet, I should have slept and been at rest,

14With kings and counselors of the earth, Who gloried in their swords;

— Job 3:15 —

16Or I should have been as an untimely birth proceeding from his mother’s womb, Or as infants who never saw light.

17There the ungodly have burned out the fury of rage; There the wearied in body rest.

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