“He promises that he will not contradict this book containing the divine witness. "For every one of my steps," with the progress of my works, "I will announce it," that is, I will acknowledge the truth of God's testimony and I will not refuse to submit the sentence according to divine witness. So he says, "and as to a…”
Thomas Aquinas, 13th c. — Commentary on Job
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37I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince would I go near unto him.
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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.
36Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me.
— Job 31:37 —
38If my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain;
39If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life: