“Is not destruction to the wicked? and estrangement to the workers of iniquity? The speedy comforting of the good is the end of the wicked had regard to. For while by the destruction of those they see the evil that they escape, they account as light whatever of adversity they undergo in this life. So then let the lost…”
Gregory the Dialogist, 7th c. — Morals on the Book of Job, Book XXI
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3Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity?
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1I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?
2For what portion of God is there from above? and what inheritance of the Almighty from on high?
— Job 31:3 —
4Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps?
5If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit;