“The power of whose hands was nothing to me, and of life itself they were accounted unworthy. 'Power in the hand' is greatness in practising. But 'the power of the hands' of Heretics is reckoned 'as nothing to' Holy Church, because she sees that, the true faith being lost, whatsoever they do it is of no merit. For the…”
Gregory the Dialogist, 7th c. — Morals on the Book of Job, Book XX
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2Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished?
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1But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock.
— Job 30:2 —
3For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.
4Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat.