Holy Scripture

Job 32:4

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“Elihu therefore waited while Job was speaking, because they who were speaking were his elders. But when he had seen that the three were not able to answer, he was very wroth. Though Holy Church is unquestionably older than her adversaries, (for they went forth from her, not she from them, as is said of them by John, T…”
Gregory the Dialogist, 7th c. — Morals on the Book of Job, Book XXIII

Source: Septuagint

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4But Elihu had forborne to give an answer to Job, Because they were older than he.

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2Then Elihu the son of Barachel, the Buzite, Of the kindred of Ram, of the country of Uz, was angered: And he was very angry with Job, Because he justified himself before the Lord.

3And he was also very angry with his three friends, Because they were not able to return answers to Job, Yet set him down for an ungodly man.

— Job 32:4 —

5And Elihu saw that there was no answer In the mouth of the three men; And he was angered in his wrath.

6And Elihu the Buzite the son of Barachel answered and said, I am younger in age, and ye are elder; Wherefore I kept silence, Fearing to declare to you my own knowledge.

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