Holy Scripture
Job 3:18
A church father on this verse
“MORAL INTERPRETATION. There the former prisoners are alike without vexation. For though the just are possessed by no riot of carnal desires, yet the clog of corruption binds them down in this life with hard chains; for it is written, For the corruptible body presseth down the soul, and the earthly tabernacle weigheth…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
18And the men of old time have together Ceased to hear the exactor’s voice.
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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.
— Job 3:18 —
19The small and great are there, And the servant that feared his lord.
20For why is light given to those who are in bitterness, And life to the souls which are in griefs?