“But now my soul in mine own self is withered, and the days of affliction have taken hold upon me. Since 'the soul' of the Elect 'withers now,' because it is afterwards made green in that eternal triumphing. 'Now, the days of affliction take hold upon them,' because the days of joy follow afterwards. As it is written,…”
Gregory the Dialogist, 7th c. — Morals on the Book of Job, Book XX
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16And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me.
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14They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselves upon me.
15Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud.
— Job 30:16 —
17My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.
18By the great force of my disease is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.