Holy Scripture

Job 34:26

A church father on this verse
“He hath smitten them as ungodly men, in the place of beholders. In holy Scripture the word 'as,' is wont to be used, sometimes for resemblance, sometimes for reality. For it is for resemblance, as when the Apostle says, As sorrowful, yet always rejoicing: [2 Cor. 6 10] but for the reality, as John says, We beheld His…”
Gregory the Dialogist, 7th c. — Morals on the Book of Job, Book XXV

Source: Septuagint

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26And he quite destroys the ungodly, For they are seen before him.

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24For the Lord looks down upon all men, Who comprehends unsearchable things, Glorious also and excellent things without number.

25Who discovers their works, And will bring night about upon them, and they shall be brought low.

— Job 34:26 —

27Because they turned aside from the law of God, And did not regard his ordinances,

28So as to bring before him the cry of the needy; For he will hear the cry of the poor.

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