“Since he had been driven to the confession of his virtues both by the accusations of his friends and his pious devotion to God [and from the fear of God his virtues had proceeded], he now chooses to add the testimony of the sentence of the Judge in support of his words, so that, after God had declared that he had said…”
Julian of Eclanum, 5th c. — EXPOSITION ON THE BOOK OF JOB 31:35
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35Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book.
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33If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom:
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?
— Job 31:35 —
36Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me.
37I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince would I go near unto him.