Holy Scripture
Job 30:17
A church father on this verse
“In the night season my bone is pierced with pangs, and they that eat me sleep not. If we mark the history by itself, the case appears plain, because the body of the holy man, through the hollows of ulcers, a swarming multitude of worms was wounding. But if we dive into the mystery of the allegory, what are denoted by…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
17And by night my bones are confounded; And my sinews are relaxed.
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15My pains return upon me; My hope is gone like the wind, And my safety as a cloud.
16Even now my life shall be poured forth upon me; And days of anguish seize me.
— Job 30:17 —
18With great force my disease has taken hold of my garment: It has compassed me as the collar of my coat.
19And thou hast counted me as clay; My portion is in dust and ashes.