Holy Scripture

Job 33:26

A church father on this verse
“He shall pray unto God, and He will be favourable unto him. He says that the Messenger implores first, and man afterwards; for did not the Lord first intercede with the Father through His Incarnation, and pray for our life, our insensibility would never rouse itself to ask for those things which are eternal. But the e…”
Gregory the Dialogist, 7th c. — Morals on the Book of Job, Book XXIV

Source: Septuagint

Original

26And he shall pray to the Lord, and his prayer shall be accepted of him; He shall enter with a cheerful countenance, with a full expression of praise: For he will render to men their due.

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In context

24He will support him, that he should not perish, And will restore his body as fresh plaster upon a wall; And he will fill his bones with marrow.

25And he will make his flesh tender as that of a babe, And he will restore him among men in his full strength.

— Job 33:26 —

27Even then a man shall blame himself, saying, What kind of things have I done? and he has not punished me according to the full amount of my sins.

28Deliver my soul, that it may not go to destruction, And my life shall see the light.

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