“"Because I did not turn away," he says, "from the great multitude of my people," that is, away from my subjects, from those who were aware, who knew even the character itself of my fault. This is real wisdom. "First of all confess spontaneously your sins in order to be justified." So I took nobody as a witness of my g…”
John Chrysostom, 5th c. — COMMENTARY ON JOB 31:32-34A
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34Did I fear a great multitude, or did the contempt of families terrify me, that I kept silence, and went not out of the door?
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32The stranger did not lodge in the street: but I opened my doors to the traveller.
33If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom:
— Job 31:34 —
35Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book.
36Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me.