Holy Scripture

Job 3:24

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“And besides this righteous king, listen also unto the words of the spiritual athlete Job, whom the healing of the spirit taught what manner of thing he should set upon his table before his food, "For my sighing entereth in before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like water;" these are the fruits which he took bef…”
Philoxenus of Mabbug, 6th c. — 13 Ascetic Discourses, Discourse 11 -- On Abstinence

Source: Septuagint

Original

24For my groaning comes before my food, And I weep being beset with terror.

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22And would be very joyful if they should gain it?

23Death is rest to such a man, For God has hedged him in.

— Job 3:24 —

25For the terror of which I meditated has come upon me, And that which I had feared has befallen me.

26I was not at peace, nor quiet, nor had I rest; Yet wrath came upon me.

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