Holy Scripture
Job 30:25
A church father on this verse
“I wept of old over him that was in trouble; my soul suffered with the poor. Though it is true compassion to concur with the suffering of a fellow creature by bountifulness, yet sometimes when the several outward things are abundantly provided for us to bestow, the hand of him that gives finds the act of giving more qu…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
25Yet I wept over every helpless man; I groaned when I saw a man in distress.
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23For I know that death will destroy me: For the earth is the house appointed for every mortal.
24Oh then that I might lay hands upon myself, Or at least ask another, and he should do this for me.
— Job 30:25 —
26But I, when I waited for good things, Behold, days of evils came the more upon me.
27My belly boiled, and would not cease: The days of poverty prevented me.