“When I looked for good, then evil came unto me; and when I waited for light, there broke forth darkness. For the faithful people 'looks for good,' but receives evil, and it 'waits for light,' and meets with 'darkness,' because by the grace of the recompensing it hopes to be now already admitted to the joys of the Ange…”
Gregory the Dialogist, 7th c. — Morals on the Book of Job, Book XX
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26When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.
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24Howbeit he will not stretch out his hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction.
25Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor?
— Job 30:26 —
27My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me.
28I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the congregation.